Beautiful and Functional Birkenhead Library via Archoffice

by GenCept | June 17, 2010

This kind of materials combination is often a great choice and almost always delivers beautiful result: wood, bricks and glass. Of course that the architects talent has a considerable part on the projects result, but here we have nothing to say. Archoffice did a great job on the Birkenhead Library and Civic Centre, at New Zealand.

The transparency is another element that was very wisely explored in this building. The intention was to allow natural light to come inside all rooms, and they did that by using glass in all the facades and also having a skylight in the center of the library. At the indoors we notice the attention with details common at the projects from Archoffice, using textures, few colors and vertical elements that contrasts with the horizontal line of the building. A sensational place for the piece it provides for a good reading and for the great architectural elements.

Notions of canopy, transparency, solid, void & pattern are articulated in the design, & incorporate environmentally sustainable design principles giving substantial energy savings for cost in use, recyclable materials, night purging in summer and natural rather than artificial light.

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