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TIANJIN BINHAI LIBRARY

MVRDV and Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI) have completed Tianjin Binhai Library as part of a larger masterplan to provide a cultural district for the city. The 33,700m2 cultural centre featuring a luminous spherical auditorium and floor-to-ceiling cascading bookcases functions not only as an education centre but as a social space and connector from the park into the cultural district.

LocationChina Mainland

CityTianjin

Year2017

Surface33700 m²

StatusRealised

ProgrammesEducational , Cultural , Auditorium

ThemesArchitecture , Public , Culture , Interiors

The five-level building contains diverse educational facilities, arrayed along the edges of the interior and accessed through the main atrium space. The public program is supported by subterranean service spaces, a book storage, and a large archive. From the ground floor visitors can easily access reading areas for children and the elderly, the auditorium and the terraced access to the floors above. The first and second floors consist primarily of reading rooms, books and lounge areas whilst the upper floors include meeting rooms, offices, computer and audio rooms and two rooftop patios. Tianjin Binhai Library is part of German architects GMP’s 120,000m2 masterplan which aims to accentuate the characteristics of the surrounding districts. The complex is intended as a junction point for the CBD, old town, residential districts, commercial areas and the government quarter supplementing missing programmes in each. The library’s outer volume was stipulated in the masterplan thus the Eye and surrounding semi-public area are an internal space, an inverted icon, acting as a central point and folly in the building

“The Eye is the center of the library. It ‘hollows out’ the building and creates, out of bookshelves, an environment to sit, to read, to hang out, to climb and to access, to create an organic social space,” explains MVRDV co-founder Winy Maas. “In its heart is the auditorium which mirrors the environment, giving a 360-degree panorama of the space inside; a truly reflective and pensive environment.”

AD 100 China Award - Cultural Architecture category, Tianjin Binhai Library

Marco Gazzola at RigenerAZIONE - Architettura Raccontata, Pisa

Tianjin Binhai Library is MVRDV’s fastest realized project to date, taking just three years from the first sketch to the opening. The tight construction schedule forced one essential part of the concept to be dropped: access to the upper bookshelves from rooms placed behind the atrium. This change was made locally and against MVRDV’s advice. It rendered access to the upper shelves impossible. The full vision for the Tianjin Library may yet be realised. Until then the upper shelves of the library remain empty - with perforated aluminum plates printed to represent books ��� a remnant of the original design. The project is MVRDV’s second completed design in Tianjin. TEDA Urban Fabric, completed in 2009, provided 280,000m2 of mixed high and low-rise housing and retail. 

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CREDITS

Architect MVRDV

Principal in charge Winy Maas

Partner Wenchian Shi

Design Team

Concept design

Copyright: MVRDV

MVRDV Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, Nathalie de Vries

Partners

Co-Architect: Tianjin Urban Planning and Design Institute (TUPDI), Tianjin, China

Lighting designer: Huayi Jianyuan lighting design

Images: Ossip van Duivenbode

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sijingr5 years ago on

65 Likes, 1 Comments - Vivian Ren (@sijingr) on Instagram: “The most beautiful library in 🇨🇳 #Hollanddesigner#mvrdvarchitecture #china#tianjin”huiwen.yang5 years ago on

60 Likes, 3 Comments - Huiwen Yang (@huiwen.yang) on Instagram: “亞洲最美圖書館 #讀書人 #tianjinbinhailibrary”marysiaandreevna5 years ago on

74 Likes, 6 Comments - MarusyA (@marysiaandreevna) on Instagram: “читайте. это разви��ает!”_grinsebacke_5 years ago on

139 Likes, 0 Comments - CARMEN MINA 可梦 (@_grinsebacke_) on Instagram: “Eine Bücherei ohne echte Bücher. 📚🤦🏻‍♀️ #justchinathings #Tianjin #tianjinbinhailibrary #daytrip…”aieadriani5 years ago on

45 Likes, 1 Comments - Aie Adriani (@aieadriani) on Instagram: “Perpustakaan Nasional Indonesia team di Binhai Library #tianjinbinhailibrary #library #literature…”eunoia.collective5 years ago on

32 Likes, 0 Comments - Eunoia Collective (@eunoia.collective) on Instagram: “Bibliophiles, here’s wonderland 🦄 ... #Repost @designboom ・・・ designed by @mvrdv, the…”a.d.venturers5 years ago on

139 Likes, 7 Comments - A.D.Venturers (@a.d.venturers) on Instagram: “Tianjin Binhai Library by MVRDV is the Jury and Popular Choice Award winning project for…”farukpinjo5 years ago on

88 Likes, 2 Comments - Faruk Pinjo (@farukpinjo) on Instagram: “book.nerds ... .. . Tianjin Binhai Library, designed by MVRDV. Photography by Faruk Pinjo, 2018. .…”JoshepAyya5 years ago on

“RT TIME "More than 1.8 million people have visited this library in Tianjin, China, which can hold over 1.35 million books t.co/8uxqeWKNuM t.co/lZc0xD3RB1"”cahulaan5 years ago on

“Time magazine releases its first list of top 100 places in the world: In the top places to visit category, Tianjin Binhai Library in Tianjin, China made the cut for its gleamingly white, terraced design that elevates the humble public lending library… t.co/CCzTAJn3fQ”Irene_Start5 years ago on

“Waar moet je echt naartoe dit jaar? Volgens @TIME horen de Skygarden in Seoul en de Tianjin Binhai Library (ontwerpen van @MVRDV) tot The World’s Greatest Places of 2018. t.co/QPktIYWvHL”lfjj_cwy07185 years ago on

4 Likes, 1 Comments - WeiyiChen (@lfjj_cwy0718) on Instagram: “Amazing library in Tianjin #tianjinbinhailibrary”travelstrongworld5 years ago on

44 Likes, 6 Comments - TravelStrong | WORLD (@travelstrongworld) on Instagram: “Not just any ordinary library 🇨🇳 📷: lielaine #travelstrong”kkkwang185 years ago on

26 Likes, 8 Comments - ZiXu Wang(Kevin) (@kkkwang18) on Instagram: “Back to 🏠#tianjinbinhailibrary”_ymi__5 years ago on

39 Likes, 2 Comments - Yang (@_ymi__) on Instagram: “#timelapse #MVRDV #gmp #gmparchitekten #binhailibrary #tianjinbinhailibrary #architecture…”iii_xvii_l5 years ago on

2 Likes, 1 Comments - @iii_xvii_l on Instagram: “📖 #vscocam #tianjin #tianjinbinhailibrary”silviazzolini_ph5 years ago on

19 Likes, 1 Comments - @silviazzolini_ph on Instagram: “Reading gives us some place to go when we have to stay where we are 📖 📚…”atelier_di_spera5 years ago on

297 Likes, 11 Comments - Atelier di Spera (@atelier_di_spera) on Instagram: “Tianjin Binhai Library, China - simply stunning!!! #tianjinbinhailibrary #tianjinlibrary #tianjin…”anggianiyo5 years ago on

212 Likes, 12 Comments - Anggiani Yo (@anggianiyo) on Instagram: “Nah, this aint 3d rendering✖️ #tianjinbinhailibrary #theeye #mvrdv #mvrdvarchitecture”best_views_around_the_world5 years ago on

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12k Likes, 326 Comments - CNN Travel (@cnntravel) on Instagram: “The Tianjin Binhai Library is a cultural center in Tianjin, China that features floor-to-ceiling…”

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