San Juan Square Library country

The Public Library of Burgos has a new building. The architects Andrés Celis and Jael Ortega are the authors of the project. The building is conceived as a monolithic and apparently homogeneous volume, with a continuous skin of screen-printed glass. This envelope is merely the outer leaf of a double roof that covers opaque, transparent and translucent areas, also encompassing the Gothic façade, which is thus integrated into the composition of the building. 💡Curiosities Through the Gothic doorway which forms the main façade, there is a triple-height foyer, illuminated from above, which provides a quick overview of the building as a whole. Inside, there are two courtyards around which there are two cores that house the vertical circulation of people and services. The rest is a completely diaphanous floor plan, which finds its qualification in the transversal transparencies and in the visual effects produced by the courtyards.