Helsinki Central Library Competition Entry / Plan 01

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In the virtualized information era, Plan 01 believes the design for the Helsinki Central Library should be more than ever a “physical space”. The project should be a place for sensory experience, a place where culture becomes an opportunity to meet and exchange ideas, a place where the civil forum is recovered from the virtual and returned to the urban world. Their concept becomes a symbol in stone and wood that opens its heart to the city and offers visitors a retreat for body and mind. More images and architects’ description after the break.

Socrates “Let me show you in a figure how far our nature is enlightened or unenlightened: Imagine men living in a type of cave, which has a entrance open towards the light which stretches all the way along the cave” (Plato : The Republic). The Myth of the Cave offers us a metaphor for the search for truth, a metaphor of a reality that in the present and the future is becoming increasingly abstract.

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Cite: Alison Furuto. "Helsinki Central Library Competition Entry / Plan 01" 11 Dec 2012. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/302743/helsinki-central-library-competition-entry-plan-01> ISSN 0719-8884

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