How to create a lively town centre and an iconic cultural building which serves the community? Adding a library and media annex to this residential development provides an opportunity enliven the area enormously. To enhance the program’s visibility, the building has been opened and positioned against the facade. A façade filled with books.

In between the structure and the facade the special programmatic elements of the library are carved through the building at different heights, a local history collection, the CD collection, the children’s collection etc. After entering the building one can stroll along these special collections, crossing the building from one side to the other and back – almost like in a museum.

The transparency of the facades of the mediatheque are maximal and the special collections show themselves as special framed spaces, with their own identity and scale on the facade. At the ground floor a reading café is situated and a little higher on the side of the music school nine short-stay apartments are planned. In between the main entrance of the mediatheque which can be entered from the café. All elevators go up to the roof with a terrace which also can be used as an outside foyer for the auditorium, but also offers a special place to overlook the centre. In this way the media will be a destination in itself, open to visitors, readers and students. A true public building.