Ghent, Belgium
The new media library located in Ghent’s historic center presents a stack of horizontal slabs in what is a highly flexible volume. A series of external metal louvers set before the facade of the media library serves to protect the building against su
The new media library, in the center of Ghent, sits at a bend of the krook, the canal that runs through the city and reaches its lowest level at this point, marking the two ‘zero levels’ of the city: that of the canal itself and that of the many brid