Public library for Bhopal Madhya Pradesh

Abstract

The Public Library is one of the few institutions that a person can freely access and stay inside for several hours for free and without being questioned and with no demand for a fee. A public library thus provides its environment, in addition to information, as a public service. The architectural design of a public library is thus an extremely important factor in deciding its ability to serve its community. This architectural thesis explores this as an opportunity to design a library that responds to the needs of the local users through its spaces. This is done by first understanding the users, the immediate surroundings, and the context, and then applying these learnings to design user-centric spaces. It also employs critical regionalism as a design approach. The final design is able to provide a solution of a public library built with modular spaces that can be repurposed according to the needed user requirement and can be multiplied and shaped according to the need.