The Seoul Studio Designing Only for Public Libraries

Bureau Haneul has completed fourteen libraries across South Korea and has not taken a commission for anything else.

The specialism began by accident, after a competition win in Daejeon led to calls from three neighbouring districts.

In practice

The studio now keeps a shared database of shelving loads, reading light levels and children's furniture heights that it updates after every opening.

Every library teaches us something the next one needs.

Park Ji-won, director