client: Växjö Municipality
completed: 2003
The City Library consists of a new building and a careful renovation of the existing library, designed by the architect Uluot in 1965. The extension is an independent, circular volume, which meets the the square shape of the main volume through a glass volume in-between the two. The building as well as the interior consists of a mix of existing and new elements, combined in a way that creates a unity. All furniture has been hand-picked or developed to create a perfect balance between form and function, building and interior.
Halmstad Library is set in a parkland space on the River Nissan, overlooking Halmstad’s historical core. With a circular atrium set around a large existing chestnut tree - its fulcrum - and the long concave façade with double-height glazing ‘distended’ between two white horizontal ‘floating’ plates, nature, the seasons and the city all become part of the library. Inside, the library is essentially a single open space, flexible and highly legible: an open structure which allows an active interplay between the columns and the trunks of the trees outside.
client: Ministry of Culture
completed: 1999
The interior design of the Royal Library at Slotsholmen in Copenhagen represents a continuation, in terms of design and materials, of the building’s essentially simple design concept and general character. The project comprises the design of fixtures and fittings as well as the choice of moveable furnishings and standard components for all the library’s diverse sections and functions: reading rooms, administration areas, restaurant and canteen, exhibition spaces, shop, foyer and public service areas. Fixtures and fittings include service counters, reading room tables with task lighting, as well as seating furniture, bars and buffets in the restaurant. Moveable furniture includes the adjustment and fitting of standard shelving, choice of reading room chairs, rest seating, plus tables and chairs for the restaurant and canteen. The materials used for the fixtures and furnishings are primarily concrete, pale wood, pale leather along with stainless steel surfaces.
client: Middelfart Municipality
completed: 2005
The interior design of the library has been a very close collaboration with the development of the house. Materials and colours are repeated from house to inventory to create a homogeneous environment in close connetion to the architecture and to integrate the public foyer space and the library space as a visual whole. The library is located at the “Culture Island” - a house created by schmidt hammer lassen architects at the water front to gather the various cultural activities of Middelfart in a vibrant and intimate space and to honour the amazing location by the Fjord. Colours, materials and signage are kept to a minimum and designed to increase the awareness of the unique location - bringing visual focus and contact to the exterior and at the same time creating a simple and logic interior planning.