Tafline Laylin Indonesia’s New University Library Will be a Swirling Green Roofed Mountain

Towering tablets are set to rise from a central green-roofed mound at the new University of Indonesia Library, which will house five stories of books and other precious reading materials. Insulated by a grass-covered roof and stone cladding, and protected from direct sunlight, the library's contents will be preserved in an ideal interior environment that does not exact a hefty cooling load. Winners of an open design competition, Denton Corker Marshall modeled the granite-clad towers after stone tablets or prasati, which the ancients used to inscribe wisdom. They are carved with narrow slots of glazing that allow daylighting to reach far into the interior.

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