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Architects: Wang Weijen Architecture
- Area: 21801 m²
- Year: 2017
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Photographs:Chao Zhang, Wade Zimmerman
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Lead Architect: Weijen Wang
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Text description provided by the architects. The library design for the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus reconsiders the typical university library in China by breaking the six-story volume into two three-story C-shape volumes, stacked and re-oriented to connects with the adjacent landscape.
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The library building extends the campus’s green mall into its atrium, creating a direct visual connection between the campus and the hill behind the building.
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![Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus / Wang Weijen Architecture - Exterior Photography, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6036/3b9b/f91c/8122/3000/0118/newsletter/1_Library_daytime.jpg?1614166927)
The library’s six-story atrium is surrounded by bookshelves and filled with reflected natural daylight. The atrium space extends vertically through the building and laterally connects different reading and study spaces.
![Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus / Wang Weijen Architecture - Exterior Photography, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6036/3dab/f91c/8122/3000/0128/medium_jpg/6_Entrance-2.jpg?1614167461)
The horizontal volumes capture the surrounding landscape into the building, bringing a sense of naturalness into the densely packed shelving areas.
![Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus / Wang Weijen Architecture - Interior Photography, Stairs](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6036/3dd7/f91c/812d/a000/0140/medium_jpg/11_Atrium_and_Walkways.jpg?1614167505)
![Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus / Wang Weijen Architecture - Interior Photography, Stairs](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6036/3bae/f91c/812d/a000/0130/medium_jpg/3_Atrium.jpg?1614166949)
The skylights filter natural daylight into the center of the library, creating a warm and reader-friendly environment for reading and study.
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From the exterior, the library building extends to connect with the adjacent student center, teaching complex and sunken garden, creating a learning hub for knowledge exchange among students.
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The use of material integrates local brick-laying techniques and with a glazing-aluminum curtainwall system. The exterior curvatures of the library building are designed in relation to the turning-and-meandering experience inside, creating a sense of discovery between the built and the natural, and between the vertical and the horizontal.
![Library of the Chinese University of Hong Kong’s Shenzhen Campus / Wang Weijen Architecture - Exterior Photography, Facade](https://images.adsttc.com/media/images/6036/3bdc/f91c/812d/a000/0136/newsletter/9_Library_and_Campus_Walkway.jpg?1614166996)
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