Ramón Esteve Estudio de Arquitectura, SLP

Sant Josep Library

Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo

SANT JOSEP LIBRARY

Ramon Esteve

ARCHITECTS
Ramon Esteve

COLLABORATOR ARCHITECTS
Esther Broseta, Rubén Navarro, Olga Badía

BUILDING ENGINEER
Emilio Pérez

PROMOTER
Ajuntament d’Ontinyent

WORKS MANAGER
Manuel Pamies

COLABORADORES
Silvia M. Martínez, Tudi Soriano, Patricia Campos, Estefanía Pérez

CONSTRUCTION COMPANY
Díaz-Sala

PHOTOGRAPHS
Diego Opazo

YEAR
2008

LOCATION
Ontinyent, Spain

CATEGORY
Library

Text description provided by architect.

The library is a detached building within green surroundings splashed with trees that penetrate into the openings of the building.

Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo

It is a prism box where the interior fragments with planes that flow between the spaces of the layout of the library.

Between two fissures, the building opens to the exterior and allows the interior spaces to reach out to the vegetation that surrounds all of the building.

Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo

The building is composed of two different rooms, part of the functional design: the multi-purpose space, the children’s one, the general background, and the space for magazines, newspapers, music and images.

The soul of the library is the books that accompany the walls that form the structure that organizes the different areas.

Sant Josep Library
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Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo

The surroundings give unity and include all of the space of the different areas, marking the limits but maintaining the continuity and fluency of the spaces.

The building opens to the exterior through polygonal courtyards that generate intersecting views between rooms and fleeting views of the environment.

Sant Josep Library
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Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo

A large amount of skylights of different diameters filter a similar, neutral, clean light, generating a warm atmosphere that encourages reading and reflection.

Sant Josep Library
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Sant Josep Library
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Sant Josep Library
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Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo
Sant Josep Library
© Diego Opazo


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