COTIA LIBRARY GARDEN , BRAZIL Scanned with CamScannerCOTIA LIBRARY GARDEN Architect — IPEA Location — GRANJA VIANA, BRAZIL The additional library's area intended to maintain distance enough for the recognition of new volume autonomy as well as to be placed comfortably close enough to complement and connect existing balconies and external areas. The zone of transition between new and old volume was established by a generous garden, and its incorporation into the project was determined from distinct purposes of the openings Scanned with CamScannernorth and south facades that aim at a visual contact with existing house and the bordering garden, being protected in the north by eaves that avoids solar rays in summer and invites them to enter in winter Scanned with CamScannerUHM sony Inner spaces are thus defined by the openings and are arranged by the central double-brick wall, which structure the library main casing. The toilet, the most enclosed space of the design, is the buttress of this mixed structure of wooden pillars and structural masonry wall. In contrast, the most open space is the reading Scanned with CamScannerbalcony, where one seeks to keep a simplicity of habits of reading under the canopy of a tree Scanned with CamScanner