Raisio library auditorium

The building is a collage of masses: a small village where the different functions each have their own “house”. The Auditorium, library rooms, newspaper room and music department all have clearly designated units linked by an airy lobby.

The colours and materials of the library and auditorium building have been selected in order give the spaces, and the way they are experienced by the viewer, symbolical meanings, and to improve the perceptability of the different units. The continuity of colours and materials from the outside to the inside has been a central theme in the design.