This diplomatic project researches the transformed role of the Library in today’s community and how the Library’s typology can become a parameter for urban constitution, considering both the Library’s function and it’ s architectural design. The designing proposal of this diplomatic project locates in the center of Chalkis city and contains a city’s block and a nearby square that are abandoned for over 10 years. The purpose of the design tries to give a solution according to the social and special needs of the area.

If the city’s development premises the education, the cultural cultivation and the general awareness of it’ s citizens, then the extended role of the Library as an important cultural term is considered as one of the basics for the area’s revival and the society. The location of the project’s area in the city is also interesting as it is accessible and overflowed by people during the day from different social groups. This social constituency and the realignment of the Library’s function is the main objective of the proposal.

Τhe conventional operation of a Library’s building for at least 27 centuries as a knowledge’s storing, maintaining and imparting place is reconsidered, enriched and redesigned and that affects the Library’s building type as well. This change attracts new users and the Library’s crowd keep on changing and multiplying. The new educational possibilities of knowledge and reading in combination with the new technological equipment contribute in easier search and recovery of the books that a user wants. This changes the library’s user consciousness and it’ s employees roles.

In the diploma thesis the addition of new art departments such as music and workshop buildings intend to transform the library from a static book listing place to a new platform that contains and spreads the global knowledge to the city and the people surrounding it. That serves the original challenge of the library as a dynamic center of knowledge entertainment and culture core.