Civic / A-301
Ta Nung Library
A brick-vaulted walk from the primary school to a reading room that stays open all day for the whole commune.
- Location
- Ta Nung Commune, Da Lat
- Floor area
- 386 m²
- Completed
- 2022
- Materials
- Mang Thit fired brick, vaulted, Reclaimed pine, Honed granite
- Kiln's role
- Architecture and vault engineering, fundraising with the commune
The 386 m² library holds 6,200 titles, most of them given by families in the commune. The 31 m vaulted walk is where children wait out the rain before pickup, and where a book market sets up once a month.
The vaults were laid without formwork, a technique Mang Thit masons taught on site. 41,000 bricks, 14 local builders, 7 months. Pine from the old school building was planed down into the shelves.