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Avant-garde Library Dagangcang Bookstore/SEU-ARCH Art+Zen Architects
Text description provided by the architect. There is a group of abandoned granaries in Tangkou Town, Kaiping City, Jiangmen City, where the Diaolou Group in Guangdong Province, a famous hometown of overseas Chinese and a world cultural heritage, is located. Due to its historical value and unique form, the Avant-garde Library is located here. The bookstore hopes to revitalize and reuse the abandoned silos to create a unique quality bookstore space for Avant-garde Library, the first rural bookstore in South China. There are seven buildings in the bookstore that need to be renovated. There are also five granaries currently being restored, mainly the barn roofs. The top of the silo was repaired and rebuilt using original techniques, which solved the problem of roof leakage and basically maintained its original appearance.
Due to structural problems with the two buildings in the north and south wings of the five barns, we demolished these two buildings and built a new coffee shop and a literary bell tower on the original site. At the same time, a corridor was built on the west side of the five granaries to connect them. The east side of the granary faces the village square. During the renovation process, special symbols and scenes with collective memory were retained, and the silo exterior walls were repainted using the same methods as the original silo walls. The main entrance of the bookstore is set on the west side, integrated with the large banyan tree on the site. The east side serves as a secondary entrance, and the double entrance is also conducive to ventilation and traffic.
Each barn has a construction area of approximately 165 square meters, the lowest point in the silo is 6 meters, and the highest point of the dome is approximately 8.4 meters. The design establishes a two-stage principle. The lower part is the bookshelf part, with a height of no more than 2.4 meters, making it convenient for readers to pick up books. The upper part is filled with “spatial installations”. The spatial installations of the five barns are different, and their function not only solves the lighting of the lower bookshelf part, but also has more spiritual attributes.
This cafe was built on top of a demolished dormitory building. A nearly 8-meter-tall glass box was designed to enhance the openness of the space. The cafe is an all-steel structure with a thin-walled umbrella-shaped steel column in the middle supporting the roof. The strategy of “spatial installation” is continued here, with four tall umbrella columns spread out in the space like four towering trees. Coffee tables and chairs are placed around the steel columns, as if you are resting and communicating under the “tree”.
The corridor is a corridor connecting five granaries, with a total length of about 72 meters. Mainly used as a cultural and creative sales area, it can also be used as a gallery. In order not to damage the original walls of the barn, the light steel structure on the roof of the gallery is separated from the original granary wall by 60 cm to form a curved skylight, creating rich and moving light and shadow.
The Literary Bell Tower is located at the south end, about 17 meters high, echoing the regional characteristics of the Diaolou’s hometown. The irregular black steel staircase, like a “wandering dragon”, connects different heights and directions, allowing you to see squares, barns, fields…
With the exception of the long gallery on the west side, neither the barn nor the cafe has a ceiling. Indoor air conditioning units for the cafe and barn interior spaces are strategically placed within the furniture and bookcases. The air ducts and other equipment ducts connected to the outdoor unit are hidden in the equipment corridor in the open space below the ground, retaining the purity of the indoor space as much as possible.
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