More than forty young architects took part in the workshop - which can be understood as another round of transformation of the capital's libraries from obsolete places that store "paper" into multifunctional public centers, each group received one of 30 libraries selected by the Moscow Central Library System out of more than 400 available in at her disposal. In the process, the participants communicated with the directors of libraries and residents, took into account the economy in the projects; so the projects are quite real. So, 7 projects for libraries:
No. 3 named after Dobrolyubova
Address: Moscow, Smolenskaya square, 13/21
Authors: I. Matveev, K. Rakova, S. Maltseva, Creative Association "Dmitrovka"
The building of the 1940s - 1950s on Smolenskaya Square needs restoration, the authors plan to hold it in the upper floors of the "adult" department, where the interior of the Stalinist period has been preserved, as carefully as possible, only to open part of the openings for better visibility and to offer several options for placement furniture. The interior of the lower tier with the so-called public center, which combines the exhibition space with rooms for circles, where the historical decoration has not been preserved, receives a new design, which is not directly related to the historical one.
№ 64
Address: Moscow, Putevoy proezd, 38A
Authors of the project: A. Zheltov, K. Groshelev, S. Sychugova
On the steps of the entrance group, the authors propose to place a summer cafe, "where you can read a book and chat over a cup of tea or coffee." The same in the lobby - shelving, a coffee machine. The coworking space was placed in a cylindrical volume in the middle of the main reading room behind noise-absorbing partitions of 1.5 meters in height - noise-absorbing partitions are actively used in the project, the theater hall can be divided into 2 parts with two scenes at the ends, each with semicircular wings at the edges.
Children's room № 178 named. Agniya Barto
Address: st. Dmitry Ulyanov, 24
Project author: N. Zhernakova
The library in the General's House on Dmitry Ulyanov Street, part of the prestigious academic southwest, includes the Agnia Barto Museum, and is quite active for adults and children. An exhibition hall has existed in the basement since the 1990s. At the same time, in the library, after the pipes burst, the floor needs to be repaired; there are no places for children to play, books and classes are cramped. The authors proposed two images, both, I must say, very calm in spite of the colorful "children's kitsch". One is “grandma's library”, nostalgic and continuing the image of the Barto Museum. The second one is “up-to-date” based on delicate pastel colors and “funny and ironic furniture”. The authors of the project find a place for games and classes … at the expense of the reading rooms: earlier they were divided with the subscription, in the project they were combined.
№ 85
Address: st. 3rd Parkovaya, 26/2
Authors of the project: Inna Safiullina, Oksana Bazanova
Inna Safiullina and Oksana Bazanova defined the library's focus on 3rd Parkovaya as a children's room dedicated to design, and the purpose of their renovation project was to acquaint readers with different directions of the avant-garde. The avant-garde is important for design, but it “doesn’t pass in school,” the authors explain. The proposed interior design is also inspired by the principles of the avant-garde. The shelves in the reading room are designed in the form of an amphitheater: you can sit on the shelves and in front of them, take books, read here, put them in place. Racks are also grouped around the supports. Since the library has a children's theater, a transformable room with a mezzanine stage is equipped for it. In summer, performances can be given right in the arch of the library entrance, there is also a mini-stage that uses the steps of the stairs: puppet, shadow and other performances should attract the attention of visitors.
№ 40
Address: st. 1st Khutorskaya 2, building 2
Authors of the project: Point Hype
The hype point is an anti-cafe, a club for heart-to-heart conversations. There are already many modern functions in this library, and they rather require decoration. There is a teenage talk club and anti-cafe, a photo and cinema hall is planned soon; the architects' task was to formalize all this, not initiate. Colored movable chairs and ottomans, racks, tables and seats, including those made of plywood pallet cassettes, are offered.
No. 2 named after Yu. V. Trifonova
Address: Moscow, 4th Tverskaya-Yamskaya street, 26/8
Authors of the project: M. Bakhrameeva, E. Ermakova, D. Petukhov
The authors called their project “library of thinking”. They open the entire book depository and distribute the book racks across the newly formed coworking space in the former depository, a conference room and a "business ward." In the hall of periodicals, also, apparently, distributed among the open halls, a meeting room is formed, and in the conference hall - a small cafe on the site of the lending department, which moves to the place of a computer room, also distributed over the open space. Shelves are distributed along the walls, made according to author's projects for optimal placement, and sometimes according to creative imagination - on the stairs, the shelving is convex like a lens, above the amphitheater, the shelving merges with the ribbed arched ceiling. Cladding panels are removed from the ceiling, walls, linoleum from the floor - all this will allow not only to renew the feeling of the interior, but also to win a couple of centimeters of space due to the thickness of the cladding.
№ 106
Address: Moscow, Shaturskaya street, 49k1
Authors of the project: Tatiana Skibo
The library is cramped, the reading room, where it should be quiet, is combined with the study room, by definition noisy, in one space. Tatiana Skirbo proposes to squeeze out the administration, which has now occupied more than half of the premises, to arrange a separate classroom for classes at the expense of its premises and to expand the reading room. A quiet, private reading corner is provided even on the stairs, and on the roof of the entrance Tatyana suggested placing a terrace with access to it from the reading room, which remains multifunctional, that is, it can also hold lectures and film screenings, moving the mobile parts of the amphitheater together.
On the opposite side there is a cafe and its terrace, where you can take out shelves with books in case of holidays. The storage of books is optimized: the author proposes to replace ordinary shelves with automatic ones, thus squeezing not only the administration, but also the books themselves.
In addition to the cafe, the functions are complemented by a copy center and yoga.
Organizers:
Growth Point architectural practices;
GKUK of Moscow "Directorate of Cultural Centers".
Supported by:
Dmitrovka Creative Association;
Asadov Architectural Bureau;
Graduate School of Urbanism. Vysokovsky National Research University Higher School of Economics.
Curators: Nikita Asadov, Ivan Matveev, Elena Ovdenko.
Seminar page: vk.com/biblioteki_7
