Location: Magdeburg (Germany)
Developer: Department of Building and Construction, Bürgerverein Salbke-Fermersleben-Westerhüsen e.V.
Architect: KARO* with Architektur+Netzwerk
Collaborators: Christian Burckhardt Gregor Schneider Mandy Neuenfeld
Area: 488 m2
Cost: 325,000 €
Year: 2009
The residents of a socially depressed neighborhood have organized to collect and share books in an open-air library that they have constructed, after a participative process, with prefabricated pieces from a demolished building.






