Central University Library in Podgorica

Architecture Competition Entry, 2025

On a compact site converge academic, civic, political, and technological demands—a challenge to hold in balance while keeping the building open, transparent, and adaptable to the shifting conditions of education and society.
We conceive the library as a public cultural machine: at once building, infrastructure, and fragment of city—a vessel designed to carry and project knowledge.

As a climatic organism, the library uses light, structure, air, and organic matter to shape how information is experienced and shared. It is a compact spaceship for ideas, precise and legible—a realistic utopia.


Architecture by (AB)NORMAL
Team: Federica Montingelli, Marija Ivljanin, Giulia Cova, Cesare Donadeo, Camilla Morandi, Mattia Inselvini, Davide Masserini, Luigi Savio

Structures by Ing. Andrea Luca Biagini