A complete view of the Tianfu Humanities and Art Museum
Cover news reporter Li Yuxin intern Wang Zhuo
On April 18th, Chengdu, which has been rainy for many days, ushered in a long-lost bright spring light. Illuminated by the gentle spring light, when you come to the picturesque Tianfu Art Park, you can look up and see the curves of the roofs of the buildings rising from the ground, as heavy as the mountains. The unique lines of this huge building are outlined between the high and low, like a rolling mountain peak, which is intertwined with the lake in the park. And this is the theme branch of Chengdu Library - Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library, which will meet with the majority of readers on April 23, World Book Day.
In the usual impression, the public library in the city has an orderly arrangement of bookshelves, neatly arranged tables and chairs, and a serious and dignified atmosphere, so that readers who enter the library dare not speak loudly. The Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library, which is about to meet with readers, seems to be breaking the "stereotype" of public libraries. Here, there is a high glass curtain wall, readers can see the scenery outside the museum unobstructed; there is a warm and lively children's reading center, children can travel through the picture book labyrinth, parent-child center and other areas; and the "book mountain" in the museum, up to 10 meters high book wall makes readers feel magnificent and solemn...
"The Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library may change our citizens' perception of traditional libraries, that is, it will become a cultural complex centered on reading." Readers enter this library, in addition to reading, they can also enjoy many other derivative services, such as information exchange, experience, study tour, travel visit, and meeting guests. It may also become a city hall and a large study for citizens. In the visit to the library on the 18th, Xiao Ping, director of Chengdu Library, said so.
"Book Mountain" in Tianfu Humanities and Art Museum
"Book Mountain" is cascaded
Feel the comfort of "reading on the earth"
Walking through the turbulent lake in the park and entering the museum, the first thing that grabs the reader's attention must be the undulating book mountains and the terraced space in the museum. Originally, the design of the area adopted the artistic conception of "the book mountain has a road and a diligent path", and the bookshelf was set up into a cascading wave shape. Walking slowly through these "book mountains" through the reading space like terraces, readers can follow the path up to reach the reading halls on each floor.
"With a floor area of 32,000 square meters, a design collection of 800,000 volumes, and 2,200 seats, the library is an Internet celebrity library featuring artistic, humanistic, and aesthetic scenes." According to Zhang Yi, director of the Regional Cooperation and Career Development Department, the book wall here can reach a maximum of 10 meters, and all the books on the wall are real, in order to show the grandeur and solemnity of the book mountain. The entire Shushan area is mainly based on literature and art books, and readers can borrow books below the 6th floor of the bookshelf.
Reading area in the museum
Although the appearance of Shushan makes readers feel new and shocked, stepping into the interior of Shushan, you can also see that it has created a living aesthetic space that integrates reading, leisure, aesthetics, artistic experience and cultural exchanges. "The desks, sofas, chairs, etc. here are all unique, and they are specially designed for the Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library." Zhang Yi added.
Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library
Of course, the reader's vision is not limited to the museum, through the floor-to-ceiling glass window to look out, you can see the natural scenery outside the museum, only to see the lawn shallow hills verdant green, the lake in the sun flooded with tiny waves. Relaxing and reading in front of the floor-to-ceiling windows by the lake seems to slow down even time.
"The design of this venue, I think, is very closely integrated with Tianfu culture. It has a lot of regional characteristics, and the design of the entire venue uses Du Shi's 'window contains The West Ridge Thousand Autumn Snow'. Director Xiao Ping also said. When the reader comes in and sees the part of the book mountain, like the mountains with heavy mountains, I feel that it gives the reader a kind of kindness to read on the earth. Because of the construction of the park city, I think it is necessary to transplant the natural landscape into the indoor reading space, which actually has the comfort and closeness of reading in the natural landscape. I think this is also a very typical example of Chengdu's construction of a park city demonstration area. ”
Chengdu Archives
More than just reading
Meet the cultural complex of different groups
Not only does it change the traditional impression of the serious and dignified atmosphere of public libraries, the Tianfu Museum of Humanities and Arts will bring readers the experience and enjoyment, and it is not limited to "reading". For example, the Children's Reading Center, which has an area of more than 1,000 square meters, is currently the largest children's reading and activity center in the Chengdu Public Library. The area is divided into picture book mazes, parent-child centers, homework gardens, small theaters, children's lending areas and other parts, which can not only stimulate children's interest in advocating reading, but also meet the children's nature of more emotional exploration.
Entering the Chengdu Archives, there are 30,000 books and documents of 20,000 kinds of chengdu area history, geography, politics, economy, military, culture, customs, specialties, people, places of interest and historical sites, etc., and more than 11,000 special documents, including manuscripts of Ba Jin, Shu Ting, Wang Meng, Ah Lai, Wang Guozhen, Zang Kejia and other famous artists. It is worth mentioning that the area adopts the design concept of the ancient library, and the space is presented in the form of a building in the form of a building, with retro and nostalgic tones, stepping into it is as if you have traveled back to history through time and space. There is also a Chinese Studies Study Hall integrating ancient book reading, sinology research, traditional cultural activities and research, and a cultural and creative platform that displays and sells cultural and creative products with Chengdu Library and Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library elements as the main IP...
Academic Lecture Hall
As Curator Xiao Ping said, in addition to the reading experience, readers can also enjoy many other derivative services, such as information exchange, experience, study tours, tourism visits, meetings and so on. "Since then, we will launch many other types of activities, such as the premiere of the transformation from paper to film and television works, a large number of exhibitions, salons, international cultural exchange activities, etc." Such a cultural complex will meet the multifaceted needs of all ages and different groups, and its openness and sharing will reach an extreme. ”
It can be said that the Tianfu Humanities and Arts Library has done a lot of "addition" in the function of traditional public libraries. However, the choice to open the museum on World Book Day to meet readers also proves that as a public cultural place, it still does not forget the essence and foundation of reading. "The Tianfu Humanities Library presents a space for reading on paper, and it also has many ways to read electronically and audio. It is actually a comprehensive reading space in which paper reading and digital reading are embedded in each other. (The picture in this article is from Liang Lindong, a volunteer at Chengdu Library)