Kvarterhuset Library
- Location
- Valby, Copenhagen
- Status
- Completed, 2022
- Type
- Civic
- Gross area
- 2,150 m²
- Client
- Københavns Kommune
- Structure
- Glulam frame, CLT roof cassettes
Fig. 01 — Massing and sun study
The project
A neighbourhood library with a hall that stays open after the books close. The hall is booked 300 evenings a year.
The brief asked for a library. The neighbourhood asked for a room. We gave the community hall its own door to the square and its own heating zone, so it can open at 22:00 without lighting the reading hall.
The reading hall sits under three north-facing roof lights. Its glulam columns sit on a 4.5 m grid that matches the shelving, so the layout can change without moving a single bracket.
Fig. 02 — Ground floor
Scale 1:250 (not to scale on screen)
Material palette
Spruce glulam
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Terrazzo, local aggregate
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Oiled oak
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Signal red doors
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