Area: 1,875 sqm
Year: 2007
Photos: Pietro Savorelli
Project's description on ArchDaily:
"The project consists of the renovation of a building from the late
Nineteenth century in the old centre of a small town in the province of
Bergamo, which had initially been built as a primary school. The
intention was to make the building available to the citizens, by
renovating and expanding the original building, which was to become the
new municipal library and thus a centre of culture. The C-shaped plan of
the original building and the fact that more space was needed suggested
the addition of a new block on the open side, to create an internal
open court and turn the building into a more stately “palazzo” formed
around a court.
The new volume is only connected through the basement, while it
maintains a studied physical and morphological distance from the
existing building. The new structure takes the form of a triple-height
book-case, contained in transparent shell or casket, protected by
sunscreens formed of terracotta books supported by a system of steel
profiles which screen and filter the sunlight. This “diaphragm”,
characterized by the free rotation of the books, symbolically defines
the character and the significance of the entire building."
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