Triangle

“Dos-à-dos libraries” project comprises two libraries: a new community library and a traditional local library.

 

Minjae Kim

Minjae is a third-year BArch student from South Korea and New Zealand, is passionate about solving site-specific problems through architecture and maximising materials. He values the remnants of the past, addresses contemporary issues between people and space, and focuses on sustainable design to address environmental issues, ultimately fostering harmony between the past and present.

Minjae Kim, BArch Architecture

 
 

 

Dos-à-dos libraries

“Dos-à-dos libraries” project comprises two libraries: a new community library and a traditional local library. It reflects a new concept for libraries—a third type of space that adapts to changing social and cultural trends and offers people free spaces.

Spalding is home to two major populations: foreign labourers from Eastern Europe who work in the city's agricultural and native British residents. This project aims to facilitate the coexistence of the two groups. The project's primary goal is to integrate Eastern European cuisine with Spalding's agriculture, enabling users of libraries to plant, cook, and consume through books.

This project aims to make the library space a common space for people, as well as a communication between the building and the surrounding site. By showing the architectural communality of the shape, size, materials, and components around the site, it embodies harmony between cultures, harmony between people, space, and architectural harmony.

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