Biblioteca di Lisboa

Project Bibloteca Poco Do Bispo
Year 2013
Site Poco Do Bispo, Lisbon, Portugal

Structure/Materials:
Existing Concrete beam structure :The external facade was replaced with brick in yellow colour to recalled the memory of existing building.

Brief
A Reuse project of a military’s compound that is now abandon. The project works on both masterplan level and the building itself. 

Finally, The re-used project focused on the frontier building of the compound.AN old factory which now had turned in to a public library,The project profited on visibly repetitive 3*3 beam structure and a double -height room which results in a long reading room. Separated by the wall with thousand of books, Hided the circulation cores and study rooms where one can read in silence. 

*The project in collaboration with Paolo Manchiori