{"id":20664,"date":"2025-01-11T02:22:44","date_gmt":"2025-01-10T23:22:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/boldysh.com\/?post_type=portfolio&p=20664"},"modified":"2025-01-13T14:24:19","modified_gmt":"2025-01-13T11:24:19","slug":"alvar-aalto-library","status":"publish","type":"portfolio","link":"https:\/\/boldysh.com\/es\/portfolio\/alvar-aalto-library\/","title":{"rendered":"Alvar Aalto Library"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Design:<\/strong> Alvar Aalto<\/a>, 1927-1935<\/p>\n

Location:<\/strong> Russia, Vyborg<\/p>\n

Photographer:\u00a0<\/strong>Sergey Boldysh<\/a><\/p>\n

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Alvar Aalto won the design competition for the new Vyborg Central library in 1927 with a proposal to which he gave the pseudonym \u2018W.W.W.\u2019 The design was modern,\u00a0yet still steeped in the Classical tradition. Funds for building the new Central Library had been left in the will of Maria\u00a0Lallukka, wife of\u00a0Juho\u00a0Lallukka, a Vyborg business tycoon.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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The period between the competition proposal and the final design stage lasted five years. During that time, a great deal happened, both in European architecture and in Aalto\u2019s own architectural thought processes. By the time the final drawings were prepared in December 1933, Aalto had become a thoroughbred Functionalist. When the Library was completed\u00a0in 1935, it attracted worldwide attention and, in conjunction with\u00a0Paimio Sanatorium, it raised Aalto up to become one of the figureheads of Modernism.<\/p>\n

In the final design, the different parts of the building were given their own entrances and internal circulation was ingeniously controlled between spatial entities extending throughout the various floors. Aalto stressed the different functional characteristics of the spaces \u2013 on the outside, the library proper is separated from the lecture hall and the rest of the \u2018socially active side\u2019, opening up to the outside through huge windows. The architect carefully considered problems associated with lighting and acoustics, including in his drawings a large number of studies and sketches dealing specifically with these aspects.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>

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