Alvaro Siza Vieira

摘要

This library is located in a band between Lima River and Marginal Street. The building is part of an urban plan by Fernando Tavora foreseeing the construction of a multipurpose building, two office blocks framing a square with a monument of the revolution of 1974. The site planning takes into consideration the buildings by Fernando Tavora, Eduardo Souto de Moura, Jose Bernardo Tavora and Adalberto Dias. On the far east part of the proposed sequence of the buildings, the library is composed of a raised volume - 45 by 45 m, including a central void of 20 by 20 m extended at the ground level by an L-shaped floor and by a series of walls enclosing a large riverside garden.