‘Kizuki no Mori’: a forest of books   Kengo Kuma and Associates have recently completed this Chikujō Town Public Library, reworking a former public hall into a timber-filled civic space in rural Fukuoka, Japan .   Set within a quiet landscape, the new library presents a low, extended form whose edges are softened by a field of vertical wooden louvers. These slender members gather along the facade and entrance canopy, where they tilt and fan outward, forming a porous threshold between town and interior. Their spacing allows light to pass through while tempering the scale of the existing structure. the Chikujō library entrance is framed by timber louvers that rise into a canopy | images ©︎ Masaki Hamada / kkpo     a timber canopy shapes arrival   Approaching the Chikujō library’s entrance, the louvers rise and bend into a broad canopy which the team at Kengo Kuma and Associates design to frame the main access point.…