Fineland QingCloud Library reading | Limn Board
Fineland QingCloud Library reading by studio revo and fineland architecture

Fineland QingCloud Library reading

Golden A' Design Award Winner 2020

This architectural interior presents a reading room featuring a dramatic curved shelving structure as the primary visual element. Scanning from the periphery inward, the left edge reveals floor-to-ceiling windows offering views of an outdoor garden with mature trees and green lawn, the glass framed by pale gray architectural elements. The floor throughout appears as polished concrete in warm gray tones, smooth like river stone, reflecting the surrounding illumination with subtle sheen. Rising from the floor and curving across the composition, an elaborate shelving system constructed from light wood resembling honey-colored oak or pale walnut creates a sweeping wall of rectangular compartments arranged in horizontal rows. Each individual shelf compartment glows with soft white backlighting, creating a grid of luminous rectangles that ascend in gentle curved bands. Teal-green strips, cool like sea glass, trace horizontal lines along the front edges of each shelving tier, providing rhythmic accent against the warm wood. The shelving structure curves in a gentle arc that embraces the interior space while rising toward the ceiling. At center ground level, a large pure white hemisphere rests directly on the floor, its surface smooth as porcelain, approximately waist height, positioned beneath the ceiling opening. Above, the ceiling features a large elliptical opening rimmed with metallic gray louvers resembling brushed aluminum, with small recessed lights dotting the perimeter. The ceiling opening reveals a secondary ceiling layer with geometric patterns created by structural elements. The overall illumination combines the warm glow from backlit shelves, cool daylight from the windows, and focused downlights from the ceiling aperture, creating an atmosphere that feels simultaneously intimate and expansive, warm like afternoon sunlight yet spacious as a meditation hall.

This space was created to become a creative and casual bookstore where tourists can purchase books, boutique accessories and coffee. The central structure at the entrance visually enhance the customer experience when stepping into the space. To provide independent reading environment, lots of shelves and tables are scattered at the two sides of the central element.