The project is an entry to the competition to design an addition to Asplund’s iconic Stockholm library. Our proposal transforms the annex buildings adjacent to the main library that were proposed in Asplund’s original masterplan. The volumes defined by these intended buildings are translated into voids using the prismatic geometries already found in the iconic Asplund Library’s cylindrical rotunda and rectilinear base. These voids become conical figures that intersect the lifted volume of the library addition to bring light into the center of the new mat building. The cones’ tops are rectangular while the elliptical bottom’s distort at the base to accommodate various key programs and allow for a series of public passageways through the building and over the rooftop to the hillside park beyond.......
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