{"id":251,"date":"2025-11-30T13:54:14","date_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:54:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.trainingsequipment.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/kere-architecture-reveals-designs-of-its-first-built-project-in-south-america\/"},"modified":"2025-11-30T13:54:14","modified_gmt":"2025-11-30T13:54:14","slug":"kere-architecture-reveals-designs-of-its-first-built-project-in-south-america","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.trainingsequipment.net\/index.php\/2025\/11\/30\/kere-architecture-reveals-designs-of-its-first-built-project-in-south-america\/","title":{"rendered":"K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture reveals designs of its “first built project in South America”"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Berlin-based studio K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture<\/a> has revealed designs for the Biblioteca dos Saberes in Rio de Janeiro<\/a>, which features perforated brick facades and a cylinder that rises from its centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

Biblioteca dos Saberes will be located in the city’s Cidade Nova neighbourhood and across from architect Oscar Niemeyer’s Samb\u00f3dromo parade ground, where the Rio Carnival takes place annually.<\/p>\n

According to K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture, it is the studio’s “first built project in South America”, and its second library project after the Gando Primary School Library<\/a> in founder Di\u00e9b\u00e9do Francis K\u00e9r\u00e9<\/a>‘s hometown of Gando, Burkina Faso<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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K\u00e9r\u00e9 Architecture has revealed designs for a public library in Rio de Janeiro located next to Oscar Niemeyer\u2019s Samb\u00f3dromo parade ground<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The building will be dedicated to indigenous and Afro-Brazilian heritage and the dance type samba, which originated in the country’s northeast region from the same roots. <\/span><\/p>\n

Samba also plays a prominent role in the city’s carnival celebrations across the way, while the building sits on the site of a former samba school.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

It will contain reading rooms, library stacks, workshops, exhibition spaces, an auditorium and a cafe, with the interior set to progress from a “quiet to lively” program.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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A cylinder rises through the centre of the library<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Wrapped in a perforated, layered facade, the library consists of three storeys of curved, flat planes that are covered in outdoor terraces.<\/p>\n

An illuminated, lamp-like cylinder, informed by the trees in the nearby Tijuca Forest, rises up through its centre.<\/span><\/p>\n

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It is composed of three stories of curved planes and walkways<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

“The Biblioteca dos Saberes is a celebration of the beautiful city of Rio de Janeiro,” said K\u00e9r\u00e9. “This library grows from the city’s history and wisdom, from samba that moves the body to the poetry that moves the heart.”<\/p>\n

The building also contains a number of elevated curved pathways, one of which bridges across the street to a monument dedicated to anti-slavery resistance leader Zumbi dos Palmares.<\/p>\n