Sverre Fehn - Norway
Bøler Library
Bølerlia 3C, Oslo
1972

The Bøler Library is the last part of the so-called Bøler Community Centre, designed by Sverre Fehn, which was finished in 1972.
The project was realized on a local initiative and had to be funded over a period of several years by fundraising.
The Library Building appears as a simple and cubic volume, wich consists of a base in red concrete and a band of windows with dark slender frames.
Of special interest are the concrete brise-soleis, which stand in front of two façades as independent constructions.
On the interior of the one-storey construction, the single space is exclusively lit from above by the band of windows.
Running all around the perimeter walls, bookshelves are dominating the introverted space of the library.