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open international public anonymous 2 stage competition | 03/2007

The National Library of the Czech Republic

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The National Library of the Czech Republic


The National Library of the Czech Republic is conceived as one single book telling a thousand interwoven stories of the past, the present and the future of her people.
The visualization of this book and the creation of the space for the preservation and but also the telling of these stories is the main idea of the design.
Omnipresent as the „spine“, the National Archival Collection with its unretrievable collection of documents binds the past and future tales that make up the collective narrative.
To enter the libray is to open the book, stepping onto the pages that contain the stories.
The room expands horizontally following the lines of a text but also opening up vertically as if turning the remaining pages.
The letters and words forming the text are conceived as „voids“ in the pages/levels. They are the means of communication, literally but also as the spatial relationships whithin the complex network of information.
Lageplan / Konzept (Blatt1/12)

Lageplan / Konzept (Blatt1/12)

Erdgeschoss/Fernperspektive (Blatt 2/12)

Erdgeschoss/Fernperspektive (Blatt 2/12)

Obergeschoss / Perspektive Strasse (Blatt 3/12)

Obergeschoss / Perspektive Strasse (Blatt 3/12)

Obergeschoss / Perspektive Park (Blatt 4/12)

Obergeschoss / Perspektive Park (Blatt 4/12)

Untergeschoss/ Perspektive Foyer (Blatt 5/12)

Untergeschoss/ Perspektive Foyer (Blatt 5/12)

Untergeschoss / Perspektive Luftraum (Blatt 6/12)

Untergeschoss / Perspektive Luftraum (Blatt 6/12)