Réaménagement et agrandissement de la bibliothèque de Pierrefonds / Pierrefonds Library Redesign and Expansion
2013
Pierrefonds, Quebec, Canada- Architecture for culture, research, sport or leisure
- Building
- Library
The Pierrefonds-Roxboro borough launched a design competition in 2013 for the expansion and redevelopment of Pierrefonds Public Library in a bid to improve existing library services as well as offer new services to the rapidly expanding local population.
This is a new type of library, focused on various essential activities and encouraging the actions and contact between users, documents and media. The library becomes an ecosystem, a means to live and work together. The citizen takes on an active learning role in this context, following a "do it yourself" philosophy that enables him to take an active part in his own development as well as his community's by doing things.
The library's renewal as an informational and cultural hub within the community will make it a vector for sustainable local development. The library is part of a greater plan to stimulate citizen activity, becoming the heart and soul of the neighbourhood.
The new library must:
- Give the public access to services, information, resources and spaces, encouraging community empowerment.
- Facilitate citizen participation in the development of culture and knowledge
- Encourage literacy in children as well as continuing development for teens and adults
- Inspire the public and stimulate creativity
- Improve citizens' quality of life
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)
This is a new type of library, focused on various essential activities and encouraging the actions and contact between users, documents and media. The library becomes an ecosystem, a means to live and work together. The citizen takes on an active learning role in this context, following a "do it yourself" philosophy that enables him to take an active part in his own development as well as his community's by doing things.
The library's renewal as an informational and cultural hub within the community will make it a vector for sustainable local development. The library is part of a greater plan to stimulate citizen activity, becoming the heart and soul of the neighbourhood.
The new library must:
- Give the public access to services, information, resources and spaces, encouraging community empowerment.
- Facilitate citizen participation in the development of culture and knowledge
- Encourage literacy in children as well as continuing development for teens and adults
- Inspire the public and stimulate creativity
- Improve citizens' quality of life
(From competition program)
(Unofficial automated translation)