Arquitetura de bibliotecas públicas como estratégia de interação com o usuário

Abstract

In its historical trajectory, libraries went from spaces for storage of knowledge supports to places for dissemination of information and of reading. Nowadays, they can be not only information spaces, but also of leisure and culture. The architecture of libraries, as well as their physical space, has also evolved historically and today aim to offer pleasant spaces for its users, turning the library into a living space. In such way, this work has the general objective of analyzing in the literature about the theme, the architecture and the organization of the physical space in public libraries and its relation with its users and, as specific objectives to understand the relation between the architecture in libraries and their users from its historical and conceptual trajectory, as well as to describe the physical spaces of public libraries and to analyze the contribution of the improvement of physical spaces in the satisfaction of the users. From the objectives outlined, a narrative-type literature review was used as methodology, involving three distinct and complementary steps being: bibliographical survey on the related theme, selection of material and analysis of the theoretical framework. As a complement to the literature review, it was opted for a description of four Brazilian public libraries from images made available on official websites. From the literature review and the analysis of the physical spaces of the public libraries, it was possible to observe the positive relation between a good architecture and organization of the physical space and its user. Thus, it was concluded that offering a better physical space in libraries contributes to a motivating experience for its users