
四川山丘书店项目Hillside-Bookstore
北京
An interior precedent for large public bookstore design, utilizing an intricate timber pavilion and woven screens to break down a vast open floor plate into intimate human-scaled zones.
- What we like about this project
- The central timber pavilion features woven translucent panels that allow layered transparency throughout the core.
Materials
- timber
- woven-rattan
- glass
- stone-tile
Visual identifiers
- timber-pavilion
- woven-screens
- slatted-ceiling
- book-display-tables
Style tags
- contemporary
- regionalist
- timber-craft
- warm-minimal
Visual tags
- public-interior
- retail
- cultural
- timber-structure
- warm-interior
- daylight-control
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central timber pavilion structure nested beneath a continuous slatted ceiling plane, flanked by open reading areas and low display tables in the foreground.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam timber frame structure supporting an expressed slatted roof assembly.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive double-height open-plan interior with human-scaled furniture and joinery.
- Lighting
- Warm daylight washes downward through the upper clerestory and filters through woven timber screens, casting intricate shadow patterns across the floor and joinery.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, serene, and orderly, defined by natural wood tones and softly filtered sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Interior space of a large public or commercial bookstore with perimeter glazing showing outdoor greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The central pavilion creates a room-within-a-room condition, drawing the eye toward layered permeable enclosures while maintaining views through to the surrounding reading zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber posts and horizontal display units create a steady, measured rhythm across the expansive floor plate.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber interior
- Program
- Bookstore and cultural center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior
- Materials
- timber, woven-rattan, glass, stone-tile
- Visual identifiers
- timber-pavilion, woven-screens, slatted-ceiling, book-display-tables
- Style tags
- contemporary, regionalist, timber-craft, warm-minimal
- Visual tags
- public-interior, retail, cultural, timber-structure, warm-interior, daylight-control
- Geometry
- Symmetrical central timber pavilion structure nested beneath a continuous slatted ceiling plane, flanked by open reading areas and low display tables in the foreground.
- Structural guess
- Post-and-beam timber frame structure supporting an expressed slatted roof assembly.
- Spatial scale
- Expansive double-height open-plan interior with human-scaled furniture and joinery.
- Lighting
- Warm daylight washes downward through the upper clerestory and filters through woven timber screens, casting intricate shadow patterns across the floor and joinery.
- Atmosphere
- Warm, serene, and orderly, defined by natural wood tones and softly filtered sunlight.
- Environmental context
- Interior space of a large public or commercial bookstore with perimeter glazing showing outdoor greenery.
- Spatial experience
- The central pavilion creates a room-within-a-room condition, drawing the eye toward layered permeable enclosures while maintaining views through to the surrounding reading zones.
- Composition rhythm
- Repeating vertical timber posts and horizontal display units create a steady, measured rhythm across the expansive floor plate.
- Style reading
- Contemporary regionalist timber interior
- Program
- Bookstore and cultural center
- Perspective
- Interior Spatial
- Discipline
- interior