Pahlavi national library

“Architecture as landscape and landscape transformed into architecture”, this is the premise with which the project was tackled. The land surrounding the complex and the open spaces which complete some of the sections of the library were “designed” according to compositional criteria similar to those followed for the “building”. The final result is a sort of “artificial hill” which reproduces through its height the original contour of the terrain and which varies in the use of materials – first earth, then stone, cement, and finally glass – and in the design which goes from natural to geometric, underlining the rational, yet non-violent, intervention of man on nature. Just as streets and squares (places for interaction, rest and meeting) are the elements that in cities generate the urban design, in this architecture the axial pathway at various levels, with areas for resting, is the element that generates the architectural design.