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Columbia
Felipe Uribe de Bedout Architectos, Medellin – Columbia
http://www.felipeuribedebedout.com
Libraries:
Biblioteca Empresas Públicas (EEPPM) de Medellin) José Luis, Medellin – Columbia 2006
Aquitectónico Style Theme Library EPM is modern in a pyramid. The work includes approximately 10,000 m2 containing the
services expected and needed to be considered a contemporary library: reading areas, storage of books, internet lounge, exhibition
gallery, café, copy center, playgrounds, technical areas, local commercial areas of training, film library, auditoriums, study carrels,
among others. This project achieves the best balance between user and information, bearing in mind the idea of feasibility in terms
of construction, functional and aesthetic. Architect Name: Felipe Uribe de Bedout Architect, Architects signing Bedout Uribe.
What is made building materials? Drayble lined metal base on the ceiling, the walls are marble, wood and glass, the floor is in
marble. Functionality of the structure: The building is in the order of the pyramid of knowledge, that is usually part of their first
floors, to the specific at senior levels, distributed internally in four levels and a basement.
LEVEL 01.
1. City Room: In this space presents a cultural exhibition focusing on projects concerning the development of the city and areas of
expertise of the Library.
2. Children's Room: The most appropriate place in the Library for children and young people, has a library collection consists of
books, encyclopedias, dictionaries and literature on specialist areas of the Library in simple language. It offers Internet service and
develops a schedule that includes seed science, workshops reunion, video, lectures, games and other programs that encourage
creativity, to train future researchers and scientists in the areas of Science, Industry, Environment and Technology . It also has a
space to develop their play activities and experimental workshops.
3. Cinematheque: Seating for 110 people. It is used for activities related to the specialty of the Library as cycles and film forums,
conferences, among others.
4. Technical Processes: This space is made by the technical processing of new library materials in various media (books, magazines,
CD ROM, DVD, etc.) before being placed in service to users.
5. Administration: This area includes the offices of the address, secretariat, logistics, communications and culture.
LEVEL 1
1. General Past news: You can consult the general interest magazines and major newspapers. Additionally, this place is the reference
collection as dictionaries, encyclopedias and atlases; material for learning English and the folding of EPM.
2. Digital Art Gallery: This gallery will display traveling exhibits of digital art.
3. Internet, audio and video: Composed of four rooms which offers these services free of charge in shifts of 30 minutes per person.
You can consult on specialty areas of the library, video collection and see the national and international news. To save the files you
download from the Internet, you must bring a CD or USB memory.
4. Gallery: You can enjoy various art shows, in a comfortable, pleasant, with the possibility of using the coffee service.
LEVEL 2
1. General Reading Room: Here are the library collections of electronic engineering, electrical, hydraulic, mechanical, systems,
circuits, digital electronics, data transmission systems, telecommunications, telephony, energy processing systems, soil mechanics,
rules on construction techniques and architecture, structural analysis, environment, hydrology, water falls, water treatment, control
theory and machines, gas, among others. It is a comfortable and friendly place where users can read, consult and make breaks.
2. Specialized Training Rooms: The Library has four rooms for specialized training and online information resources that respond
to each of the areas of Library Science, Industry, Environment and Technology. These, with resources of information in electronic
form and online access.
3. Balcony of study. Study has 40 seats with a panoramic view towards the Plaza de Cisneros. In addition, 10 cubicles for individual
study.
They are collections of national and international technical standards, print and online. Books on informatics and sciences, as well as
reports, balance sheets and geographic information systems.
4. Scientific TV rooms. The Library has two TV rooms science, each with a capacity for 18 people. Have continuous programming
ranging from Discovery Channel, Animal Planet, National Geographic. You can also reserve space for groups interested in
consulting videos in the collection of the Library.
5. Auditorium: At this level there are two halls located in each of the sides, north and south. One with 90 seats and the other for 81
where different events pertaining to specialty areas of the Library.
LEVEL 3
1. Specialized Newspaper Archive. There are 40 posts of study and houses the collection of journals, 90% of them in English,
published by national and international organizations recognized by the four specialty areas: Science, Industry, Environment and
Technology.
LEVEL 4
1. Terrace - The terrace of the Library to appreciate the Plaza de Cisneros, Railway Station, the Alpujarra and a nice landscape of
the surrounding mountains in the east to the city of Medellin.
2. Researchers rooms - There are four rooms for up to fifteen people each, equipped for the development of activities of research
groups in the four areas of expertise of the Library. (http://www.reddebibliotecas.org.co) (http://www.fotografiayarquitectura.com)
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