Search for the theoretical foundations of designing children's media library

The article deals with the issue of the prospective development of a new type of buildings - children's media libraries, which are a structural unit of a typological group of public buildings. This type of building has emerged from the globalized leisure needs of children of different age groups. Against the background of the post-stagnation development of the library network, through the implementation of various state programs, the principles of continuity of the classical library function are implemented and media technologies are included in leisure activities. At the junction of the confluence of these two areas, there is the emergence of children's media libraries, whose development is actively carried out in foreign countries and begins to emerge on the territory of the Russian Federation. The study below is devoted to the search for the theoretical foundations of the architectural design of this type of building. Without constructing a theoretical vector for the development of a functionally adaptive scenario, the architectural typology of children's media libraries will not have a thorough study in terms of functional, spatial and technological development. The article is divided into three blocks: an analytical comparison of the most characteristic examples of modern design of media libraries, a retrospective analysis of regulatory documents governing construction, which made it possible to systematize the development of libraries by types of buildings, and then a theoretical model of media libraries based on advanced architectural and pedagogical technologies is proposed.