Comments on: Book Mountain by MVRDV

By: ahmad alsheikh syria

ahmad alsheikh syria — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 09:05:19 +0000

SUN !!!

By: Simon

Simon — Sat, 06 Jun 2009 12:58:28 +0000

I’m pretty sure if I presented this scheme in my final crit I would be ripped apart!

Nonetheless, I believe MVRDV have created some interesting spaces to make this building work.

By: MVRDV

MVRDV — Wed, 03 Jun 2009 10:27:53 +0000

As an addition some information about the books:

The sun would indeed deteriorate the books, but the books in this library are bound and glued in plastic and have a life-span of only a few years untill they fall apart from reading.

The books will not get a chance to deteriorate from light.

The higher shelves are for archiving and old books that are not used anymore, not valuable books, this suburban library does not have them. The signalling function of these bookcases is important part of the design of the book mountain and used as tool to attract visitors. The characteristics of the book collection make this visibility and exposition to sunlight possible.

By: Somo

Somo — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 10:36:48 +0000

do people not read eachothers comments? It does rather testify that architects can’t / don’t read.. so, what is the problem here with books that everyone is concerned will deteriorate. Discussion board would be more interesting than repetition board.

By: KathyZeng

KathyZeng — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 09:19:18 +0000

Is this library built with anti-reflective solar glass ?

By: yaulee

yaulee — Tue, 02 Jun 2009 05:16:16 +0000

at least they are honest in showing the ladders in there- this arrangement of book stacks does make some books highly inaccessible, looks more like the old bookstores. The librarians would be busy fetching books for the less mobile readers

By: ab

ab — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 19:25:28 +0000

the seattle library; if you look carefully, the books are kept in the “book spiral” section with no daylight exposure. the living room has a lot of daylight

By: rahool

rahool — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 10:41:57 +0000

Actually the ziggurat type configuration is nice and they could’ve played with the envelope to follow it instead of a boring hold-it-all pyramid!

By: slalomp

slalomp — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 05:46:26 +0000

Sun light Will Destroy those book

By: phil

phil — Sun, 31 May 2009 23:39:12 +0000

I don’t quite get it? The transparency of the place would be ruined by the sunscreens, but the sun will ruin the books, yet there concept calls for transparency? WTF?