Zhangjiakou Library, Hebei Province Building Design, Chinese Architecture Images
Zhangjiakou Library, Hebei Province Building News
20 May 2022
Design: Tanzospace
Location: Hebei Province, China
Wang Daquan: Zhangjiakou library, creating the spiritual breath of the city
Acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge

– W.Somerset Maugham

Photos by Shi Yunfeng
Zhangjiakou Library, Archives, Museum, and Planning Museum
Two million years ago, human groups with different culture backgrounds converged and multiplied in Zhangjiakou. They initially reclaimed the land here, opening a precedent for Chinese civilization.
Since then, this piece of land is never be barren. Eastern humans and Chinese civilization have come from here. With the approach of the Winter Olympics, Zhangjiakou is showing its new look to the world. Miniature landscape

The cohesion of city humanism
Zhangjiakou is built close to mountains and rivers, surrounded on three sides by mountains, in the north, west and east. The Zhangjiakou Library, Archives, Museum, and Planning Museum are integrated into one in the central canyon area. Those three architecture massing in different sizes are harmonious in diversity, and open to the south. The building facade is covered by recyclable perforated panels. The entire building complex a regional miniature landscape in the way of the contemporary artistic treatment.

The library on the east side is the largest, with a total construction area of 2...