BCU

location: Romania, Cluj Napoca

THE EXISTING AUSTERE AND INSTITUTIONAL CHARACTER

The urban context is dominated by massive buildings with rigorous, ordered facades, dominated by verticality. The ordered rhythm of the new volume continues this character of the area and responds very well for the requested image of a library.

MASS AND PROPORTION

The dimension of the proposed building is small if we compare it with the surrounding buildings but the rigorous character of the structure brings the impression of heaviness and stateliness.

SPACE HIERARCHY

An apparently monotonous structure of the facade is interrupted by an unusual curve in order to create order in the space hierarchy. The space between the new building and the old one is a noble space and a link between the street area and the library. This intermediate space is an exterior foyer. The verticality of the structure can be experienced also from the inside by siting in the lecture area organized on the perimeter of the plan. The core is a great place for depositing books.


design: 2010

client: BCU

type: competition

program: 2 400 m2, public library

project status: 2nd prize ex-aequo

with: easternworks, EXHIBIT ARHITECTURA

images: easternworks