Domus: A47移动图书馆是由Fundación Alumnos47开发的项目,该组织是一个民间社会组织,围绕当代艺术实践和视觉文化将学习群体聚集起来。鉴于该基金会的主要项目是在2014年左右建立一个公共的当代艺术博物馆,在容纳该博物馆的建筑完工之前,使用一个移动装置来激活博物馆的现有藏品似乎是合理的。设计这个装置变成了一个名副其实的挑战。你如何把一个与建筑截然相反的东西,如货车,变成不仅仅是一个图书馆,而是一个能够容纳整个文化活动的结构?以这种方式来看,建造图书馆的古老想法开始重新获得现代感。在这个前提下,墨西哥建筑工作室PRODUCTORA设计了一个文化中心,它位于一辆Freightliner M2 20K卡车上的20平方米的空间内,是一个流动的建筑。

Domus: The A47 Mobile Library is a project developed by the Fundación Alumnos47, a civil society organisation that brings learning communities together around contemporary artistic practices and visual culture. Given that the foundation’s major project is to build a public contemporary art museum by around 2014, it seemed reasonable to use a mobile unit to activate the museum’s existing collection until the building to house it is completed. Designing this unit turned into a veritable challenge. How do you take something so opposite to a piece of architecture as a lorry and turn it into not just a library, but a structure capable of hosting an entire spectrum of cultural activities? Looked at in this way, the archaic idea of building libraries started to regain a sense of modernity. Working on this premise, Mexican architecture studio PRODUCTORA came up with the design for a cultural centre within a 20 square metres space on board a Freightliner M2 20K lorry — a travelling building.

货车主要是作为当代艺术书籍的流动收藏品而运作。然而,除了这种用途之外,其20平方米的表面积的每一厘米都被最大限度地利用,以实现空间的真正功能。书架抛开了传统的形式,取而代之的是可拆卸的托盘,漂浮在图书馆使用者的上方,在视觉上为内部空间加冕。自由规划成为一个灵活、透明的平台,与城市和社会环境直接相关。货车是一个论坛,可以作为无数活动的场所:图书展示、电影俱乐部、诗歌朗诵会、研讨会,以及查阅书目资料的机会。

The lorry operates primarily as an itinerant collection of contemporary art books. However, beyond this use, every centimetre of its 20 square metre surface area is harnessed to maximum effect to achieve true functionality of space. The bookshelves have left their traditional form behind, instead being dismantlable trays floating above the library users, visually crowning the interior space. The free plan becomes a flexible, transparent platform that relates directly with the urban and social context. The lorry is a forum that can be used as a venue for an endless number of activities: book presentations, film clubs, poetry readings, workshops, as well as the opportunity to consult its bibliographic holdings.

货车的地板由一系列的移动平台组成,可以进入书架,使空间可以根据不同的活动重新安排。微孔板的周围作为一个可渗透的薄膜,将外部和内部融合在一起,使这个空间成为一个与环境和谐相处的练习。从街道上看,人们可以看到悬挂在巨大的固体体积上的透明的错综复杂的东西,可以瞥见里面各种各样的标题,同时也可以作为城市的灯塔在夜间发挥作用。这种照明–由货车自身的集成发电机产生–在街道变暗时提供了令人安心的光芒,并宣布其夜间活动的开始。正是通过这种对新目的的追求,用户体验到了图书馆概念的变化。A47移动图书馆远不是一个惰性的档案馆,它是一个有生命力的有机体,能够将想象力变成集体记忆的新方法。这是一辆货车,利用城市中存在的任何变化来创造其舞台。一个机械昆虫,当夜幕降临时,可以折起它的腿,收起它的故事,继续它的旅程。

The floor of the lorry comprises a series of mobile platforms giving access to the bookshelves, allowing the space to be re-arranged according to the different activities taking place. The micro perforated sheet surround acts as a permeable membrane that merges the outside and inside, making the space an exercise in honesty with its environment. From the street, one’s view of the transparent intricacy that suspends the large solid volume allows a glimpse of the diverse range of titles inside, while also acting as an urban beacon through the night. This illumination — produced by the lorry’s own integrated electricity generator — provides a reassuring glow when the streets fall dark, and announces the start of its nightly programme. It is through this quest for new purposes that users experience the change in the idea of what a library means. Far from being an inert archive, the A47 mobile library is a living organism enabling new approaches that turn imagination into a collective memory. This is a lorry that uses whatever changes exist in the city to create its stage. A mechanical insect that, when night falls, can fold away its legs, stow away its stories and continue with its journey.

Architects: PRODUCTORA
Area: 20 m²
Year: 2012
Photographs:Luis Gallardo
City:MEXICO CITY
Country:Mexico