This 24 hours open air library was realised by the Leipzig-mainly mainly based KARO Architects in Magdeburg one particular distinct of the urban regions in Eastern Germany which are characterized by abandoned industrial plants and fallow land. Central area of the settlement is practically deserted, with up to 80% of abandoned buildings, a phenomenon standard for a post-industrial Germany, men and girls are couple of and largely unemployed. Magdeburg lives a lot more like a lifeless dimensional image of what was when. Now it’s far more like a location of urban experiment. The project has been began with a public intervention, making use of beer crates as developing material in 2005 and today in front of the old library net website is a new outdoors library, opened in June 2009.
This thrilling library gives far far far more than 20.000 books. The all round notion was to “social sculpture”: architectural project from the beginning was an open concrete involvement of the neighborhood, and the aim was to refresh the hyperlinks that type the social body.
Provided that the opening of the new open air library in 2009, several cultural events took place. For this it was arranged a stage utilised by college students nearby festivals and plays, but also for neighborhood bands concerts, public lectures or any other possibilities that gather people in a single distinct place. The library is a single specific mainly based on trust. There is no registration charge, no catalogs, and most probably not a librarian. You can decide on any book, but it would be excellent to bring it back or at least replace it with a single a lot a lot more.
Images: © Anja Schlamann.
Project Specifics:
Architects: KARO, Antje Heuer, Stefan Rettich, Bert Hafermalz, Leipzig Architektur+Netzwerk, Sabine Eling-Saalmann, Magdeburg
Collaborators: Christian Burkhardt, Gregor Schneider, Mandy Neuenfeld
Project Partners: Bürgerverein Salbke, Fermersleben, Westerhüsen e.V.
Structural Engineer: Michael Kurt, Leipzig
Light Conception: Jürgen Meier, architektur&medien, Leipzig
Consultant: Ruth Gierhake, Köln
Commissioner: City of Magdeburg
Funding: Ministry of infrastructure, constructing and city improvement
Creating Charges: 325.000 Euro
Net internet site: 488 square meters
Producing: Nov. 2008 – June 2009
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