Yue Library / Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design

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INTERIOR DESIGN • HANGZHOU, CHINA

Interior Designers: Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design

Area: 1170 m²

Year: 2019

Lead Architects: Yi Chen, Muchen Zhang

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Text description provided by the architects. Made from plant fibers, paper books have a natural and
earthy touch, imparting an indescribably intimate and warm feeling when we read them. Paper-book
reading has long been an experience that solaces our minds and nourishes our souls. The unique
authenticity, vividness and earthiness in this traditional media often inspire us to rethink our lives. Such
inspiration and experience can never be replaced by digital online. The overabundance of electronic
products makes offline reading much more valuable, calling for protection of our vulnerable ecosystem
of humanity in the same way as we cherish nature.

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Designers Yi Chen and Muchen Zhang partnered with Beijing Capital Land in a project to explore
cultural lifestyles in Hangzhou, providing local citizens with a way of life to satisfy their needs for
culture, lifestyle and spirituality. Designed to be a representation of the warmth of life, the space
embodies the humanistic, historic and cultural heritage of Hangzhou, and serve as a versatile hub for
both cultural experiences and community services.

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This is a reading-themed living space as well as a social platform based upon coffee experience. The
formation of Yue Library epitomizes years of cultural practice of the Beijing Capital Land, including a
carefully selected collection of brands including Yuntai Bookshop, Yue Coffee and the Beijing Capital
Langyuan. It is built as a shared space for cultural experience that integrates systematic, diversified and
upgraded lifestyles of reading, coffee and cultural interaction. In addition to the reading area and the
coffee area, the Yue Library also features an area dedicated to experiences of all five senses (vision,
hearing, taste, smell and touch), covering a variety of themed spaces such as a talking space, a
children’s playground. By combining cultural connotation with the living scenes, the project manages
to embed culture into everyday life and presents an intimate environment for cultural life in the local
community.

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The Yue Library provides local communities and literary scenes with multiple possibilities of cultural
experiences, including reading and book borrowing, literature and arts salon, movie concerts,
international music festival, etc. It also pioneers in creating a "shared experience space" with abundant
cultural resources in Hangzhou. It also serves as a platform for cultural exchange for all those engaged
in the fields of culture and arts. The Yue Library is set to become a highly esteemed venue for literary
circles.

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In designing the whole space, Yi Chen and Muchen Zhang purposefully creates a strong ecological
ambience of organic interdependence, responding to the prevailing desire for breathing in nature,
reunion with nature, and echoing with nature, so that the whole natural ecological ambience can return
as the backdrop of our lives.

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Natural wood is largely used in the space. The designers try to keep the use of materials and design
language to a minimal degree, so that the innate property of wood can be highlighted in a simple and
unpretentious manner, and that the space modestly exudes a state of inner life.

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Natural wood is a material filled with vitality, whose temperature and touch are quite similar to those of
human beings. In fact, the designers have found a material in harmony with human body in natural
wood, to respond to the primitive longing to be caressed and embraced, which is pretty much what
paper books have done for us. By building and shaping the space with natural wood, a kind of
resonance with human body can be created, which adds a dimension of warmth and kindness to
everything we do in the space, making it a soothing and relaxing retreat from urban pressure. Save

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The 10-meter-high interior space is divided into several horizontal layers, forming platforms for various
activities in different spatial dimensions. Large glass wall allows in large quantity of natural light
cascading down along the large stairs, and at the same time providing open view for the natural beauty
of the garden outside. The wall-like bookshelves create a dense forest space feeling, while the corridor
bridges serve as a pathway that threads through different horizontal and vertical spaces, creating a
sense of psychological connection. This multiple dimension of space also translates into broadened
and extended minds and thinking.

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The designers focused on the deepest needs – the desire of a spiritual and mental nature. The Yue
Library is a place for people to enjoy spiritual comfort, a haven where people can put down their
burdens and seek the freedom of their hearts. What makes human beings special is the fact that we are
always pursuing eternity and perfection in our hearts, and design is one of the ways to achieve this
value expression.

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Walking into this jungle of books, you can draw inspiration from a vast pool of wisdom. This is where
you can immerse yourself in writings, interact with ideas and authors from the past and the present,
and explore possibilities and spiritual needs; traverse the boundaries of urban life, and break down the
psychological barriers between individuals. This is your Yue Library.

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Address: Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China

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Location to be used only as a reference. It could indicate city/country but not exact address.

Published on October 15, 2019

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