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Community Library

Community Library
Francesco Ricci

Community Library

The project converts the former cafeteria of the Library into a new playful and social space within the seventeenth-century complex of Santa Teresa deiMaschi, home to the Provincial Library of Bari.

photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci
photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci

Through the definition of two new floors, a flat roof and a floating floor, the new library is redefined in a new physical space strongly characterized as a place of aggregation and meeting.from the exterior in order to expand or reduce, as needed, the closed space of the former cafeteria.

photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci
photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci

The windows are rethought as more intimate places and for this reason redefined as open bookcases in which to stop and read and discuss.

photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci

Team:

Architects: FèRiMa studio

Colaborators: arch. A. Trisolini / ing. G. Sblendorio / arch. D. Bertugno /

ing. V. Dicecca

photo_credit Francesco Ricci
Francesco Ricci

Materials Used:                  

Flooring: Liuni Spa 

Doors: Ligna srl

Windows: Trackdesign

Roofing: Green Lux 

Interior lighting: Delta Light

Interior furniture: Ligna srl / wooden furniture      

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