Lonely Library, also known as Sanlian Bookstore seaside public library, is located on a seaside beach in Beidaihe New District, Qinhuangdao City, less than 100 meters away from the sea, and opened on April 23, 20 15. The lonely library is about 450 square meters, with three floors and large French windows facing the sea, so that everyone inside can see the sea. The seats in the reading room are stepped from high to low, and people sitting on the steps can see the sea when they look up.
The lonely library is designed by Zhi Zhi Architectural Design Office. The main idea of the design is to explore the relationship between spatial boundaries, physical activities, changes in light and atmosphere, air circulation and marine scenery. The east side of the library faces the sea. It serves the community residents in the west residential area in spring, summer and autumn and is open to the public free of charge.
Reading space
Designers understand the most important reading space as the stands, and the gradually rising ladder platform will make people in different places in the space see the sea more unimpeded. On the sea side of the space, the first floor is a movable wall composed entirely of glass revolving doors. When the weather is fine, the wall is completely opened, forming a more direct open relationship between the interior of the space and the sea. Above this movable wall, there is a horizontal seascape window that traverses the space and becomes the focus of the whole space to see the sea.
In order to avoid the interference of any structural member to the transparent window, the load of the roof is completely supported by the steel truss above the window, and the two sides of the truss are semi-transparent walls made of hand-fired glass bricks, which makes the internal truss structure looming on the one hand, and this semi-transparency is very sensitive to light on the other hand, which can reflect different light colors and atmospheres inside and outside the building at different times of the day.
Reference to the above content: Baidu Encyclopedia-Lonely Library