White Comedy of Xi?an Zhongshu Bookstore, Shanxi Commercial Building, China, Project, Images, Architect
White Comedy of Xi?an Zhongshu Bookstore in Shanxi
Retail Interior Building Project in China – design by Wutopia Lab
17 Jul 2018
White Comedy of Xi?an Zhongshu Bookstore
Design: Wutopia Lab
Location: Xi?an, Shanxi, China
White Comedy of Xi?an Zhongshu Bookstore

Wutopia Lab recently designed an entirely white Zhongshu Bookstore in Xi?an, one of the most ancient cities in China which used to be the capital for thirteen dynasties, with 300 tons of steel and 30,000 meters of light strips.

We aborted our design of a direct entry into the bookstore, and created a glittering entrance in the commercial space on the fourth floor; this required to make free of the floor slab of fifth floor into the main area of the bookstore without destroying the main structure. We built a pillarless white curvy staircase, highlighted by a spiral white panel, surrounded by custom-made white acrylic walls. Readers coming from their everyday life, heading up the stairs step by step, and are encouraged by the spirit of knowledge and curiosity displayed through the books around them to enter the bookstore over the clouds.
The basic space of the bookstore consists of popular book recommendation areas and public reading areas. We decided to make a reading paradise over the ?clouds?, and it should have a light and streamlined free space, but in order to follow the restrictions of fire codes, we ...