Yulin · Ueno Bookstore by BDSD Boundless Design
The story of time in a bookstore grows upward in the middle of the city Memories in books are about the city and the self. It is said that the depth of a city's culture is judged by how many bookstores it has. Bookstores and cities express and co-exist with each other in the witness of time and space. Walk into a city, remember a city, and fall in love with a city... People use bookstores as a warm carrier of collective memory to explore the past and future of the city.Huizhou Wild Island Cultural Life Community is famous for its accumulation of Dongpo Temple, the former site of Yuedong Distillery and the former site of East Lake Hotel. Ueno Book House is located here. It awakens the industrial civilization engraved in the depths of history with the scent of books. Old memories overlap with new stories, and the past and changes of the city, which have been left behind by the passing of time, are preserved, shaped and regenerated.Four seasons under the chimney and you in the book.
The story of Ueno Bookhouse and the city of Huizhou begins with a disused old chimney. Winery boiler room was intact, towering old chimney, become a witness to the culture symbol of urban change, through the 70 time, the human and the nature gives the fresh vitality, random house named "ueno", also from the stack up, and gave birth to the shape of the natural environment, to day day up, natural growth, hope came to the house, You can feel the inner strength of enterprising, advocating nature and loving life. The design team was inspired to connect the history and the environment with the architecture. With respect to the history, the library, from planning to reconstruction to reappearance, is always given a time property that flows in stillness.This attribute of time displays from the moment seeing the bookstore. For the old chimney, the ancient bricks and tiles, the former courtyard wall, and the grass and trees witnessing the time, etc. the preservation and restoration is the best presentation of the uniqueness of a field doma