1 minute read
1.6 Previous Projects
CRLand Archive Library
Office: Studio Link-Arc
Advertisement
Client: China Resources Land, Ltd.
Year: 2017
Typology: Library
Building Type: Archive
Project Size: 97,000 SF
Project Cost: Undisclosed
Location: Shenzen, CN
Located on the campus of Xiaojingwan University, a private educational institution in Shenzhen, the CRLand Archive Library has a dual program. The building’s primary function is to serve as an archive for the client, holding all of its physical and digital records in a subterranean vault built into the hillside that serves as the project site. Atop the archive, the project functions as a gallery space and lecture hall that serves the adjacent campus, adding a civic and cultural dimension to the project.
The project’s upper two floors that house the building’s public programs are restricted to a boxy massing defined by the footprint of the archive vaults beneath. To increase the connections between the internal program and the site beyond, Link-Arc created two interior public spaces: an understated entry lobby connecting to the main campus, and dramatic exhibition space with views of the city and landscape beyond. The two spaces are connected by a linear “skylight hall” which provides access to the gallery and lecture hall spaces within.
Copyright© 2023 by WAU® - Watchorn Architecture & Urbanism. All rights reserved.
