Project: Zhongshu Bookstore Design Firm: Wutopia Lab Chief Architect: YU Ting Project Architect: Chen LIN Design Team: Jie LV, Jianming ZHU, Mingcheng DU, Liyuan LU Design Consultant: TOPOS DESIGN CLANS Lighting Design: Zilu WANG Construction Team: Shaanxi FuLei Decoration Design Engineering Co., Ltd. Clients: Shanghai Zhongshu Industrial Co., Ltd., Xi’an China Movie Times International Studios Project Location: Xi’an, Shanxi, China Project Area: 1886 sqm Completed 2018 Photography: CreatAR Images

项目：中书店设计公司：乌托邦实验室总设计师：宇婷项目建筑师：陈霖设计团队：杰LV，朱建明，明城度，丽源路设计顾问：Topos设计集团照明设计：王子路建设团队：陕西富雷装饰设计工程有限公司客户：上海中书实业有限公司，西安中国电影时报国际工作室项目所在地：山西西安市：1886平方米完成2018年摄影：CreatAR图像摄影

Wutopia Lab recently designed an entirely white Zhongshu Bookstore in Xi’an, one of the most ancient cities in China which used to be the capital for thirteen dynasties, with 300 tons of steel and 30,000 meters of light strips.

乌托邦实验室最近在中国最古老的城市之一西安设计了一家全白色的中书店，这里曾经是十三个朝代的首都，拥有300吨钢和3万米长的薄薄的薄片。

We aborted our design of a direct entry into the bookstore, and created a glittering entrance in the commercial space on the fourth floor; this required to make free of the floor slab of fifth floor into the main area of the bookstore without destroying the main structure. We built a pillarless white curvy staircase, highlighted by a spiral white panel, surrounded by custom-made white acrylic walls. Readers coming from their everyday life, heading up the stairs step by step, and are encouraged by the spirit of knowledge and curiosity displayed through the books around them to enter the bookstore over the clouds.

我们放弃了直接进入书店的设计，在第四层的商业空间中创造了一个闪闪发光的入口，这就要求在不破坏主要结构的情况下，把五楼的楼板放进书店的主区域。我们建造了一个没有柱头的白色弯曲楼梯，由一个螺旋形的白色面板突出，周围是定制的白色丙烯酸墙。读者们从日常生活中走出来，一步地走上楼梯，被周围书籍所展现出的知识精神和好奇心所鼓舞，从云端进入书店。

The basic space of the bookstore consists of popular book recommendation areas and public reading areas. We decided to make a reading paradise over the “clouds”, and it should have a light and streamlined free space, but in order to follow the restrictions of fire codes, we had to challenge the traditional types and materials of the bookshelf. For the first time, we used 5mm thick steel plates to customize curved bookshelves. After precise structural calculations, the steel frame that is hidden behind the foundation is used as the support of the structure. The over 3,000 meters long steel plated bookshelf floats in the air as a cantilevered structure. Digital concepts and technologies are used in order to realize such a soft and free space: each piece of steel plate has been optimized through programming, processed by CNC machine tools, and then assembled on site according to the numbering.

书店的基本空间包括通俗图书推荐区和公共阅读区。我们决定在“云”之上造一个读书天堂，它应该有一个轻盈流线型的自由空间，但为了遵守防火密码的限制，我们不得不挑战书架的传统类型和材料。我们第一次使用了5毫米厚的钢板来定制弯曲的书架。经过精确的结构计算，将隐藏在基础后面的钢框架作为结构的支撑。3，000多米长的镀钢书架以悬臂式结构在空中漂浮。为了实现这一软空间和自由空间，采用了数字化的概念和技术：每一片钢板都经过编程优化，由数控机床加工，然后按照编号进行现场组装。

The free flowing bookshelf outlined by a curve has a total of ten levels, making full use of the corners of the public reading area. The rounded chamfers leave the space with no sharp corner, the back panel is made by a translucent acrylic; whereas the book recommendation area of the white bookstore is to suspend the triangular steel plate with a slender screw, so that the books displayed above seem to float in the air. This is a brand new experience to the Zhongshu bookstore branches.

由一条曲线勾勒出的自由流动的书架总共有十个层次，充分利用了公共阅读区的角落。圆角的倒角离开空间没有锐角，背板由半透明的丙烯酸制成；而白色书店的书推荐区是用细长的螺丝钉悬挂三角形钢板，使上面展示的书看起来漂浮在空中。这是对中书书店分店的全新体验。

There is a pantheon in central of the public reading area. In the center of the floor structural beams stands an exquisite displaying rack for Zhongshu’s “Book of the Month” selection, and can only be held by one person at a time. The floor slab here was replaced with a glass floor in order to mimic an illusion of water surface. The space underneath it holds a room for reading meeting or a mini conference. This invisible academy and the visible pantheon together form the center of Zhongshu Bookstore — an oasis where the mind and soul can be rejuvenated and set free.

在公共阅读区的中央有一个万神殿。在楼的中央，有一个精美的陈列架，供中书“月刊”选择之用，一次只能拿一个人。这里的楼板被玻璃地板取代，以模仿水面的错觉。它下面的空间有一个阅读会议或一个小型会议的空间。这一无形的书院和可见的万神殿共同构成了中书店的中心-一片绿洲，在那里，心灵和灵魂可以被复兴和释放。

Zhongshu Bookstore’s children’s library is a crystal structure hidden in the forest. It was inspired by the trees and animal silhouettes of the nine-colored deer to protect the children’s Wonderland. Kids will find their own hidden entrances, a hidden world of playful tricks and caves, and have the skylines of the architecture, blue skies and starry nights. This is a world for children.

中书店的儿童图书馆是一个隐藏在森林中的水晶结构。它的灵感来自九色鹿的树木和动物轮廓，以保护孩子们的仙境。孩子们会发现他们自己隐藏的入口，一个有趣的把戏和洞穴的隐藏世界，还有建筑的天际线，蓝天和繁星之夜。这是一个儿童的世界。

Zhongshu Bookstore has ensured that the core shopping area is not only a quiet zone, but also a motion zone based on the streamline and operation of the cinema combined with the coffee and meal service with more dining tables and booths. The bookstore, thus, is creatively merged with the cinema.

中书书店保证了核心购物区不仅是一个安静的区域，而且是一个以电影院的流线和运营为基础的运动区，与咖啡和餐饮服务以及更多的餐桌和展位相结合。于是，书店创造性地与电影院合并了。

The design and construction of Zhongshu Bookstore which lasted 600 days is not only the transcendence of Zhongshu Bookstore itself, but also represents the great urban revival that Xi’an is currently experiencing. The whitest bookstore is filled with various kinds of ancient souls of various temperatures with pure thoughts, memories, and hopes.

长达600天的中书店的设计与建设，不仅是对中书书店本身的超越，也是西安目前正在经历的伟大的城市复兴。最白的书店充满了各种不同温度的古代灵魂，有着纯洁的思想、记忆和希望。

I hope my architectural practices reiterate our everyday life through immense imaginations and dramatic artistic expressions. I also hop that it transforms reality into a “magic reality” and creates an illusion that uncovers bits of truths in our life. Miracle, raising from ordinary life, is believed to be both a magnification and a fated outcome of ordinary life — the stories of which can be colored and told in an extraordinary fashion. Zhongshu Bookstore pays the tribute and performs a white Divine Comedy to the capital of thirteen dynasties — Xi’an.

我希望我的建筑实践通过巨大的想象力和戏剧性的艺术表现来重申我们的日常生活。我也跳过，它把现实变成了“神奇的现实”，创造了一种幻象，揭示了我们生活中的一些真理。奇迹，从平凡的生活中升起，被认为既是普通生活的放大，也是注定的结果-它的故事可以被渲染，并以非同寻常的方式讲述。中书店向十三个朝代首都西安进贡，表演白色神曲。