Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan is a highly esteemed winner of the very prestigious 2022 Silver A' Design Award in Interior Space and Exhibition Design Competition Category.
SilverInterior· 2022
Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library
by Muchuan Xu, Minxi Cai and Xin Yan
Client: Vantree Design
Silver A' Design Award Winner in Interior Category
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About Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library
Jinan Cultural Archives Center is a library interior located in the Lixia District of Jinan, Shandong Province. The library is one of eight venues within the cultural and archives center and occupies the second to fourth floors on the southwest side of the building. The design reorganizes circulation, adjusts the escalator position and reshapes the atrium edge. Glass partitions open views between areas and create a calm reading atmosphere. The result is a shared space where residents of different ages can read, meet and take part in cultural activities.
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About the Silver A' Design Award
Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library is a Silver A' Design Award winner, an extraordinarily prestigious recognition granted to top-of-the-line, gorgeous, and impressive designs. Silver winners are tremendously brilliant and exceedingly creative works that illustrate the outstanding expertise, talent, and acuity of their designers. Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library is expected to be a wonderful, showpiece work that is remarkably professional and profoundly innovative. This Silver A' Design Award-winning design is a highly notable, admired invention that benefits and advances the boundaries of art, science, design, and technology. Jinan Cultural Archives Center Library is a vastly envied creation that evokes desires, introduces positive feelings, and sparks amazement and wonderment.
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- Unique Properties
- The project is located in Lixia District of Jinan, Shandong Province, surrounded by cultural, educational and creative commercial resources. As one of the eight venues of the cultural and archives center, the library occupies the 2nd to 4th floors on the southwest side of the center. In order to provide residents of different ages with an emerging library model with a diversified human scale, we have built the library into a shared space.
- Dimensions & Packaging
- Reconstruction means disassembling and reorganizing and restructuring. The structure is not limited to space, but also the reorganization of behavior and sight. In order to realize the creation of shared space, the public space of the existing building needs to be split, reorganized and adjusted, and the streamlines must be sorted out and adjusted.
- Tags
- shared knowledge, reconstruction, cultural carrier
- Production Technology
- In the library block, we analyze and reconstruct the original situation to find pointcuts. After clarifying the overall optimization direction, through the analysis of the functions and structure of the traditional library, the functions and streamlines’ relationships among them were reorganized and constructed.
On the second to fourth floors, we integrated the overall streamlines, adjusted the position of the escalator, pushed and pulled the edge of the library atrium without affecting the streamlines, and the use of glass perspective to reduce the urgency of reading space and enrich people's space experience. - Design Challenge
- NONE
- Research
- As a very iconic urban cultural building, the designer hopes that this project can become a center that gathers local residents, which can provide people with different scales of communication and reading space, build a shared community, promote people's sharing and communication, and connect the future of the city. It will become a carrier for the spread of Jinan culture, inheriting traditions and having distinctive characteristics of the times.
- Inspiration
- In response to the theme of sharing and the trend of the era, we started from people's perception and experience, optimized the sight relationship in the space, placed space nodes, added functional spaces, reorganized people's social behavior, and promoted the realization of "shared knowledge".
- Project Duration
- The project started in September 2019 and finished in June 2021 in Jinan, Shandong Province.
- Operation Flow
- As a very iconic urban cultural building, we hope to create a center that gathers local residents. The library provides a place for residents to develop a good reading habit, and facilitates them to carry out various social, cultural, entertainment, and sports activities, and builds sharing community.
- Patents
- Copyrights belong to Vantree Design.
- Team Members
- Lead Designer: Muchuan Xu
Designer: Minxi Cai
Designer: Xin Yan
Designer: Jingyi Zhao
Designer: Qijun Lu
Designer: Shangzhao Yang
Designer: Xiaofeng Li
Designer: Zhongning Zhang
Designer: Guanbao Ye - Image Credits
- Copyrights belong to Vantree Design.
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