New City Library | Bolles + Wilson
Designed by BOLLES+WILSON, Like most Dutch cities Helmond is busy reinventing itself. The new City Library is the first component of a comprehensive new inner-city shopping zone (master plan: Prof. Joan Busquets). Directly adjacent to the new City Library are the 1970?s Tree Houses and Theatre by Piet Blom. Here the new library facade is molded and sloped in dialogue with its dramatic neighbor. A between space, a block internal café terrace, a comfortable and dramatic extension of the existing enclosed Theatre Square is the result of this spatial symbiosis.
Photography: Christian Richters
The outer, street-facing facade is the representative face and entrance of the new library. Upper-level projections mark the extremities, brackets (ears) carrying large-format ?Bibliotheek? letters. A horizontal facade articulation differentiates ground level shops from glazed and setback first floor (Children?s Library) and the brick surface of the upper office level.
A careful detailing and material choice for external surfaces provide a ?tactility? fitting to the historic Helmond city center. Rough dark brown and unusually horizontal bricks (Hilversum format 50 x 290 mm) on upper levels have open vertical joints and a beige horizontal mortar joint, stressing the layered grain of the brickwork. In contrast, the base is in a flat beige brick (in 3 different heights ? 50, 100, 140 mm). These are not laid in the mortar but glued together ? resulting in a stone-like solidity and hom...
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