Zhongshuge-Hangzhou Bookshop - interior

This huge bookstore is organized in dramatic layers of space. From the street, patrons enter a white, forest like space with tall white bookshelves that seem to grow tall. The next layers is the main reading room or the corridor which one has to pass through in order to come to the main reading room where one is literally enveloped by books that almost completely surrounds the patron. Children's section is off to the side which is packed with program, it can be called a miniature amusement park compared to a conventional bookstore. Adding to the drama while unifying the whole bookstore is the mirrored ceiling, giving off optical illusion in each of the space.