03_National library of the republic of Tatarstan

MOSCOW / 2019
With ХОРА
The central element of the building is a two-light lobby with reception and space for temporary exhibitions and fairs, which combines both the spaces of all functional groups of the building with each other, and the Sultan-Galiev Square with the piazzetta on the side of the Kazanka River. In this way, it connects not only the various parts of the building, but also the various fragments of the urban fabric surrounding the building. To the west of the lobby on the ground floor are the spaces of the modern reading area. Its interiors are designed in a progressive, modern, democratic way, using natural texture of concrete, metal, glass. To the east of the lobby on the second floor there is a library space of the classical type, with its material solutions facing the outstanding examples of Soviet and world architecture. The ceiling of the library space of the classical type contains an ornamental, but free pattern, in which the openings of the light guides are interspersed with artificial lamps.