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La Libreria is a temporary, lightweight structure exhibited at the 2025 Biennale Architettura. It is designed for transportability and to support literacy and a love of reading. It builds upon a long tradition of lightweight tensile structures, particularly Robert le Ricolais’ sculptural tensegrity experiments from the mid-twentieth century that aspired to ‘zero weight and infinite span.’ Adapting this research, an elongated tensegrity beam spanning the 24-meter long axis of the space supports the tent’s fiber-reinforced transparent skin. La Libreria is unanchored to the ground and stabilized by ballasts and books, enabling this mobile bookstore to travel and engage the world.

La Libreria is based on a concept by Diane von Furstenberg and is designed by Diller Scofidio + Renfro in collaboration with the structural engineering firm Schlaich Bergermann Partner, along with Transsolar and Tillotson Design Associates.