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Project: Guadalajara Library
Architect: LOT-EK
Location: Guadalajara, Jalisco, México
Size: 460,000 sq. ft.
Status: Competition

In 2005 the University of Guadalajara and the Municipality of Zapopan Jalisco, through the University of Guadalajara’s Cultural Center Trust announced the “International ideas and Conceptual Architectural Project for a Library Competition, a public library for 3,600 users and 2’000,000 volumes. LOT-EK have shared with us their proporsal for this contest.

Over 200 Boeing 727 and 737 fuselages are stacked in a north-south slant in relation to sun exposure for energy efficiency. Two shifts in the direction of the main axis of the fuselages generate two large open spaces within the stack.

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