Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem unveil Oslo's "huge but intimate" central library
Oslo's long-awaited Deichman Bjørvika central library, which stands alongside the Snøhetta-designed opera house on the city's waterfront, has opened to the public in Norway.
Designed by Atelier Oslo and Lundhagem, the five-storey building contains space for 450,000 books wrapped around a large, top-lit atrium that connects the floors and breaks them into smaller spaces.
"Our aim was to make a library that can offer a variety of different spaces within one large continuous space," explained Atelier Oslo co-founder Nils Ole Brandtzæg.
"We think we have succeeded in making a building that is huge, but at the same time feels intimate so people can feel they belong there."
Named after Carl Deichman, whose book collection started the library in 1785, Deichman Bjørvika is located on Oslo's waterfront alongside the opera house. This building, as well as existing roads, determined the library's footprint, distinctive cantilevered top floor and vertical arrangement. "The competition had options for the library to be placed on two different sites alongside the Opera," Brandtzæg told Dezeen. "We choose to place the library on the site towards the public plaza in the west."
"This site, however, was limited by roads and a regulated sightline towards the front of the Opera," he continued. "The organisation of the building is really built around the restrictions from this regulation."
The library is arranged vertically...
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