Varna Garden Library

The design seeks to strategically bring together the offsite storage facilities and reading rooms under one roof providing the utmost convenience for visitors. The main idea is to create a library that is accessible to and usable for everyone while simultaneously proposing familiarity between the layout of the building and the city street.

Upon looking at the library, visitors encounter terraces that encircle around the exterior of the building. These terraces, when unraveled, resemble an elongated street with different sections that offer a multitude of flexible programs. The library program is organized on a spectrum that starts with playful programs, and spiral up to more focused study area, eventually leading up to the park on the roof. While terraces offer vibrant outdoor spots that foster social interactions, windows work as framings that connect the interior to the agreeable exterior generating a direct visual contact with the courtyard.

Reestablishing the role of the library as a cultural playground, the library is not an object to admire from theoutside but an interactive area that intellectually stimulates its users encouraging them to make cross connections between knowledge and experience.