A pavilion building surrounded by greenery

Since early times, the garden has always been a place to refine spirits and improve knowledge. Nature has always offered the elements to reflect and understand the relationship between man and the universe, helping to grasp the meaning of life. The proposal took shape by exploiting the peculiarity of the new library construction site. The area is part of a system of public parks which, starting with Marinai d'Italia, continues in a recently formed linear green space. The architectural proposal is in continuity with the existing park that becomes the design protagonist. Elements of the park and the building combine and interact, creating formal and perceptive opportunities that differentiate spaces and facilitate the distribution of functions.

The project proposes a building with five main floors above ground - structurally autonomous - which develop along an east-west axis consisting of a gallery 10m wide, 100m long, and 23m high, covered in glass.
Technological towers separate the pavilions and collect the essential services and vertical connections: stairs, lifts, safety stairs, and system columns, making the surfaces of the floors free from fixed elements other than the structural invariants - circular columns - flexible and suitable for space transformation over time.
Easily furnished with modular systems: movable walls including equipped ones, open shelving, wired tables, various seats also protected from noise, soundproofing equipment, single rechargeable, and mobile lighting devices.

The pavilions, where necessary, are connected by overhead walkways crossing the gallery, making the spaces fluid and easy to reach.
The gallery is rectilinear, while the pavilions are relatively free from the orthogonal: they rotate, diverge, and adapt to the surrounding places, with varied orientations and different perspectives, as pretexts to break up the massive volume (it is about 130,000mc ).

In essence, the building is divided into many elements surrounded by greenery, like a fragment of an articulated city. With a hanging pedestrian park that crosses it at a height of 9m separating the general functions located below from the specialized ones, and highlighting the most innovative part of the library: the Forum.

Structurally, the building is made of concrete, steel, and glass with extensive use of prefabrication, which leads to significant economic and time savings.
A library today must be a “highly technological machine” also for its management and maintenance.
Here is proposed an nZEB structure managed according to the dictates of the Smart Building.

The project is complex due to the multiplicity of functions it contains, but it is simple in its organization, which facilitates the orientation of the public in the space.