You can walk on the roof of this sloping brick library in India
Go ahead, walk right over it From a house whose roof is made from seaweed and driftwood, to a town hall that serves as a physical bridge over a river, there is no shortage of buildings that are designed to blend into their surroundings. This school library in India is continuing the tradition with a sloping shape that merges with the ground.
Mumbai-based architecture firm sP+a designed a library for a school in Kopargaon, in the state of Maharashtra, to fit into a narrow space between the school?s existing buildings. The result is a vaulted brick structure that rises into a mound-like extension of the ground that people can walk over. The architects say they arrived at the library?s final form through a combination of low-tech and high-tech processes. The arched shape is inspired by 16th-century Catalan tile vaults that were popularized by the 19th-century Spanish architect Rafael Guastavino. The vault?s actual shape was created with a special rhinoVAULT plug-in that allows the library?s arched shape to rely on pure compression.
Edmund Sumner via Designboom
Edmund Sumner via Designboom
Edmund Sumner via Designboom
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