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    The King Fahad National Library in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was completed in 2013. It was designed by Professor Eckhard Gerber and his firm to be a cultural landmark in the capital. The new building envelops and integrates the original structure, preserving it within a modern architectural design. The façade features textile awnings that reference Arabian tents. Inside, natural light floods the open reading areas, while the book stacks are concealed below like a hidden treasure. The library serves as both a cultural center and the iconic focal point of the developing Olaya District.

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    The King Fahad National Library in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was completed in 2013. It was designed by Professor Eckhard Gerber and his firm to be a cultural landmark in the capital. The new building envelops and integrates the original structure, preserving it within a modern architectural design. The façade features textile awnings that reference Arabian tents. Inside, natural light floods the open reading areas, while the book stacks are concealed below like a hidden treasure. The library serves as both a cultural center and the iconic focal point of the developing Olaya District.

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    The King Fahad National Library in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia was completed in 2013. It was designed by Professor Eckhard Gerber and his firm to be a cultural landmark in the capital. The new building envelops and integrates the original structure, preserving it within a modern architectural design. The façade features textile awnings that reference Arabian tents. Inside, natural light floods the open reading areas, while the book stacks are concealed below like a hidden treasure. The library serves as both a cultural center and the iconic focal point of the developing Olaya District.

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    King Fahad

    National Library
    Riyadh, Saudi
    Arabia
    Introduction

    • The King Fahad National Library, one of


    the most important cultural buildings in
    the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia, was
    completed and went into use for its
    intended purpose in November 2013.
    This project sees Professor Eckhard
    Gerber and his Gerber Architekten team
    accomplishing one of the most important
    urban development and cultural projects
    in the capital, Riyadh. The design
    functions as the central driving force
    behind a piece of urban development and
    rearrangement, and combines the
    challenge of designing within the existing
    building stock with respect for Arabian
    culture.
    Location
    • The King Fahad National Library represents
    the new centre of the rapidly changing Olaya
    District, and stands out clearly from the
    heterogeneous existing building pattern. The
    square new building in the centre of the urban
    park looks open and light, and is tied into the
    urban space despite its size. Gerber
    Architekten designed the existing park
    including parts of the available green space as
    a spacious square, and this and the library now
    form an urban unit. Thus the National Library
    becomes the iconographic centre of a
    prestigious urban quarter that increasingly
    important in future years.
    Concept
     Façade concept
     Architectural concept The key element of the façade was developed especially for the new building.
    It is a cladding made up of rhomboid textile awnings, marked by its play with
    The new building encloses the old one protectively, and revealing and concealing. Inserted white membranes, supported by a three-
    combines itself with it in an unusual way, following dimensional, tensile-stressed steel cable structure, act as sunshades and
    monument preservation principles. The cruciform existing
    interpret the Arabian tent structure tradition in a modern, technological way.
    building, topped by a dome, is concealed inside the new
    building. The old structure is integrated as a building This sequence of old and new creates a uniform and prestigious overall
    within a building, while its existing dome – originally in architectural appearance with characteristic styling. At night the façade glows
    concrete – has now been reconstructed in steel and glass, in a soft white light and becomes the city’s cultural lighthouse.
    and continues to be a cultural symbol of the library.
    Interior Design

    • The entire former roof of the


    existing building, which
    occupies an extensive area, now
    provides a reading landscape
    flooded with light and offers a
    special atmosphere that will
    encourage the exchange of
    knowledge in this way. Inside –
    as if hidden in a treasure chest, a
    knowledge storehouse – are the
    book stacks. Visitors access the
    open-access sections on the third
    floor of the new building via
    bridges from the reading area.
    Everything is covered by a new
    roof, punctuated by skylights
    under which white membranes
    gently distribute the light
    throughout the entire interior.
    Plans
    • The main entrance hall is on the ground floor, which also houses exhibition areas, a restaurant and a bookshop. A
    library area for women only, in which they can spend time without a burka, is provided on the first floor of the
    new south wing; this space is separated from the other building uses, and is also accessed separa
    Plans
    References
    • https://www.archdaily.com/469088/king-fahad-national-library-gerber
    -architekten
    • chromeextension://efaidnbmnnnibpcajpcglclefindmkaj/https://
    www.gerberarchitekten.de/app/uploads/2015/07/140110_en_King-
    Fahad-info.pdf
    • https://www.e-architect.com/saudiarabia/king-fahad-national-library-ri
    yadh
    • https://architizer.com/projects/king-fahad-national-library-riyadh/
    • https://parametrichouse.com/king-fahad-national-library/
    • https://www.archilovers.com/projects/113487/king-fahad-national-libr
    ary.html

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