本棚のアーチがつくりだす幻想的な書店

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中国の四川省、都江堰（とこうえん）に設計された〈都江堰鐘書閣（Dujiangyan Zhongshuge）〉はアーチ状の本棚が連なる本棚で構成された幻想的な書店です。巨大な本棚、鏡面の天井や床、照明の効果を活かした、驚きにあふれた空間となっています。

また、都江堰は中国の文化的な中心地の1つであり、この書店はその地域の豊かな文化遺産を体現しています。

アート作品のようなビジュアルと没入感のある空間体験を得意とする中国の女性建築家 李想（Li Xiang）が創設した設計事務所X+LIVINGが設計しました。

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「その水は浸透し、広がる。その文明は一種の精神生活である。」中国で最も有名な現代作家の一人である余秋雨は、中国の南西に位置する都江堰（とこうえん）についてこう記した。私たちは千年以上の歴史を持つこの都市に、〈都江堰鐘書閣〉という本の虫たちのための楽園をつくり、歴史と文化をもつ都市に新たな活力をもたらした。

ガラスのドアを押し開くと、ウォールナットカラーを基調としたC字型のユニークなブックシェルフが目の前に広がる。一見不規則な配列が空間の親密さを高め、フロントホールのハイライトとなっている。

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ユニークで躍動感のある円弧のフォルムは、新しい道を切り開くとともに、フォーラムエリアをさりげなく仕切っている。本棚の下を通り抜けると、まるで屋外を歩いているような感覚におちいり、本を開くと、より一層その雰囲気に包まれることだろう。

読書スペースに足を踏み入れると、従来の書店とは異なる風景が現れ、重厚な文化的背景を感じることができる。どこまでも伸びる本棚は読者の好奇心を捉え、より奥へと導いていく。

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中央の文学エリアでは、鏡面天井により空間が視覚的に拡大され、開放的な感覚を生み出している。雄大な都江堰からインスピレーションを得た本棚の壁は、歴史的文化によって築かれた都市の壁のようにずっと上に向かって広がっている。

黒いタイル床の効果により、ブックテーブルはまるで湖に静かに停泊するボートのようである。本棚の壁の間を漕ぎ、浮遊する。

階段を上がるとすぐ横に本棚があり、さまざまな本を手に取り読むことができる。また、空間の荘厳な雰囲気を途切れさせないよう、人の手が届かない棚は本の柄のフィルム貼りとした。

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以下、X+LIVINGのリリース（英文）です。

The famous writer Yu Qiuyu once wrote: Its water is infiltrating and extending; its civilization is a kind of spiritual life. The city is called Dujiangyan, located at south west of China.
In the city with over a thousand years of history, the designer has injected new vitality into this historical and cultural city with creating a paradise for bookworms, that is, the Dujiangyan Zhongshuge bookstore.

Surprise encounters with Fairyland
Push the glass curtain door open, the unique C-shape bookshelves with a natural walnut color will be in front of your eyes. The seemingly irregular sequence builds the intimacy of the space and becomes a highlight in the front hall. The inspiration exactly comes from gray tile with a historical sense. The unique and lively arc shape blazes a new trail and subtly divides the forum area. Walking through under the bookshelf is like walking alongside an outdoor eave, or stepping into a rolling mountain. Open a book, and you will be embraced into the atmosphere instantly. Wandering among the books, it seems that time also slows down with steps moving forward.
Stepping into the reading space, one could perceive the scenery images different from traditional bookstores and the profound cultural heritage. The bookshelves extend from the space to the adjacent columns, and ingeniously catch the readers’ curiosity and guide their route.

The endless bamboo forest

Walking through the winding way between bookshelf wall, the children’s reading area is suddenly exposed. Random and irregular green bamboo was ‘transformed’ into bookshelves in a creative way. The designer also decorates it with representative element of Sichuan, the lovely panda. The panda illustration hanging on the bookshelves like pandas climbing on high branches, creating the beautiful artistic conception and natural vitality. Looking downward, the colorful cushions are stacked like hills, creating a lovely and dreamy reading atmosphere for children. The cushions can also be separated for many people to use, which also provides comfort for children to sit on the ground and relax.

Greens Trees and Lakes
In the Central Literature District, the designer uses the mirror ceiling to visually expand spatial ductility and create an open and high feeling. The bookshelf wall inspired from the magnificent Dujiangyan dam spreads upward all the way, like a super city wall built with historical culture, which serves as a functional carrier for books. With the effect of black tiles flooring, the book tables seems like boats quietly mooring on the lake. It paddles and floats between the bookshelf wall. Any glimpse at the space will enjoy a visual feast. The changes of the architectural structure in the walking also reflect the dynamic aesthetics of climate changes, whether it’s rainy, windy or foggy. It seems that the beautiful scenery of Dujiangyan is vividly presented in the space. Through the door holes on the bookshelf wall, different functional areas are all under the eyesight, enrich the visual experiences of readers. Take a novel book you love. Come to the comfortable cafe and order a cup of coffee. Quietly embrace the mellow art atmosphere. Whether you stay for an afternoon or just drop by, you can appreciate the unique spiritual core of Zhongshuge, namely, giving all readers a very ornamental space, so as to produce ideological inspiration and create value.
When you go up the stairs, the bookshelves beside you offer a variety of books at accessible distance. Other places where people could not reach are decorated with book pattern film, you can still feel the majestic momentum of the space. By creating end scenery and using the technique of architecture, the designer moves the magnificent spirit of mountains and rivers into the indoor space, presents readers with elegant and powerful artistic landscape, and also expresses the awe to nature.

Here, we see a city. We listen to the dialogue between culture and wisdom, interpret the cultural thoughts condensed under the historical context, experience the ancient feelings with a poetic flavor, and realize the dream picture hidden in mind. Whether it is to use tile technology to depict anctient people’s wisdom in the reading area, or display the innocent happiness of encountering the bamboo sea in the children’s reading area, or portray the natural scenery in the literary area, they all aim to present a perfect destination for soul with the harmonious coexistence of ideal livability and natural ecology.

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