Yixing Bookstore

YIXING BOOKSTORE, CHINA

Yixing bookstore is located in Dingshu Town, Yixing City and consists of a shared community space within a run-down neighborhood, as well as reusing pots and local masonry in a patchwork wall. The design draws on its context, communicating through the dual agency of its bookshelves, which line its glass walls. These shelves make the interior program inside visible from the outside, and also allow sunlight into the spaces, its intensity dimmed by filtering it through book pages. The bookstore aims to create a space that connects people within an aged community and employs some passive design methods to reduce energy consumption and achieve sustainability.

Produced by Southeast University as part of the ARCH4FUTURE project.
Co-funded by the Finnish National Agency for Education.