Library Buildings around the World

gemeinschaftlich nutzen können. Nicht Bücherregale dominieren die Entwürfe - stattdessen bilden sie den Rahmen für
themenbezogene Bereiche und lassen großzügige Räume entstehen, die flexible Nutzungen ermöglichen.
Modellbibliotheken für junge Kunden:
Architekten: Christian Schmitz Architekten
medien@age, Dresden, Wettbewerb 1. Preis, 2002
Auftraggeber: Städtische Bibliotheken Dresden Bertelsmann Stiftung
Realisierung: Michael Franke
Jugendbibliothek Breslau (Polen), Wettbewerb 1. Preis, 2004
Auftraggeber: Bertelsmann Stiftung Gütersloh
Realisierung: Olga Schmidt
Jugendbibliothek Allenstein (Polen), Wettbewerb 1. Preis, 2004
Auftraggeber: Bertelsmann Stiftung Gütersloh
Realisierung: Olga Schmidt
Modellbibliothek für junge Kunden, Saragossa (Spanien), 2007
Auftraggeber: Fundacion Bertelsmann
Projektpartner: Uli Koelle, Barcelona
Biblioteca para Jóvens Cubit, Zaragoza – Spain 2007
Cubit becomes the first library for young people in Spain and sets the trend for future libraries.One of the futuristic rooms
Cubit LibraryCubit Library of Zaragoza is the first library of Spain conceived and designed specifically for youth.
Prompted by the Bertelsmann Foundation and the City Caja Inmaculada in Zaragoza, is a model library in which are
combined in a novel architecture, the selection of media and cultural program. The name of the library comes from a
combination of their particular form of a cube and the importance of digital media content: as design element, the hub
establishes the relationship with lumps of sugar (the building housing the library was an old sugar), while the proposed
contents of the center is linked to the digital bits of the Internet age. Cubit's cube. The mission that was born Cubit is to
create a space where youth can find all necessary information resources in their daily life, useful for student activities,
professional or recreational, as well as personal development. Is a library which attempts to activate the target group of
young people between 13 and 25 who identify strongly encouraging the new location and that they perceive the library as a
space tailored to their own codes and languages. To achieve this end, Cubit offers an innovative model of access to
information that combines traditional educational resources, such as books, audiovisual media and with the intensive use of
Internet and multimedia technologies in a space that promotes communication and interaction between visitors through
architectural discourse itself. In addition, the supply of media focus on those cultural phenomena that are most relevant for
young people, such as Internet and information technology, comics, video games and music. The initial collection of the
library has 15,000 titles in all media. The new library is located within the grounds of Zaragoza Active, developed by the City
of Zaragoza, which in turn has reclaimed the site where once stood an old sugar factory, in the neighborhood of Rabal. Cubit
is an ambitious project launched by the Bertelsmann Foundation, which conducted a national call for the construction of a
model library for youth, which was won by the City of Zaragoza and Caja Inmaculada in 2004. Cubit opens with a cycle that
brings us to the libraries of the future. A magnet for young people in the city: The library model applied in Zaragoza Cubit
targets an audience between 13 and 25 years and thus provides a fully accessible design, cozy and atypical, isolated from
traditional libraries. More than two decades of work by the Bertelsmann Foundation in Europe in the field of public libraries
have allowed this entity to be pioneering a concept library that seeks to increase the response to user needs, defining them as
genuine "customers "of these centers, customers whose expectations must always be the guide that determines the evolution
of the library, acquiring content, cultural programming and, ultimately, the entire joint offer. With this philosophy, the
Bertelsmann Foundation has led the first European youth libraries in Germany (Dresden) and Poland (Wroclaw and
Olstzyn). The will of the new library of Zaragoza is becoming a magnet for young people in the city, a space that could
attract those young people who until now believed that a library has no interest in them. With this objective, the Library
Cubit will be a center which will offer young people another way to meet, learn and have fun. For a library should be young,
and a reading area, a place for knowledge transfer, communication and entertainment. That is why among the resources
available to users of Cubit will be a growing presence of media and technology, with the horizon of medium term
representing 50% of all available means (the other 50% will be books). The catalog also responds to concerns information
that may have youth in the areas that most interest them, such as career guidance, personal development, culture and the
arts or entertainment. The original architecture Cubit: The appearance of the building is unmistakably that of a futuristic
cube, which in turn is composed of many cubes. The walls and ceilings of these cubes are made entirely in colored glass, and
floors are partially. At the top and bottom together all the spaces, which are transparent and open with what the user moves
in a free and clear, where everything is interconnected. Thus, the interior design creates resonances with cyberspace and its
many links (links).
The entire structure is characterized by transparency and manages to create the impression that the library is not lifted
within the Antigua Sugar, but float in it. The architect responsible for the project is the German Christian Schmitz. Street
level houses hub services to the public, lending the funds on youth, film, music and books on these two issues. The first floor
houses the game and made publicly accessible Internet. The second floor is for digital newspaper archive, Comicteca and has
an area for projections. The third and last floor of the cube is a space for consultation to be shared with carrying out
different activities. On July 2 opens with a creative writing workshop with designer Alberto Gamon, students who attend
IES 'The Sugar'. The hub is connected to a tower, called "Tower of Books" by bridges and stairs. The books are surrounded
by an empty space on three floors in height and are distributed through the more demanding issues that youth-employment,
language, green space, health, sports, hobbies, novels ...-. Through the transparent shelves are the means which open and
close the empty space to the outside light. If you have borrowed many books, the lobby is flooded with light. If the shelves are
full, the light only passes through the voids between the books. A greater use of the media, more light. A visual metaphor is
both a measure of the very success of the offer contained in the library. On the Bertelsmann Foundation: Bertelsmann
Foundation ( www.fundaciónbertelsmann.org/ ) was founded in 1995 by Reinhard Mohn, representing the fifth generation of
families Bertelsmann / Mohn, owners of media group Bertelsmann, and bases its work on the belief that competition and
civic engagement are the essential foundation for social progress. Its mission is to promote and enhance the shift towards a
society oriented and able to build the future, calling that particular through the identification of challenges and social
problems to develop and implement exemplary models of solution. In the field of public libraries, the Bertelsmann
Foundation has made an important task of disseminating new concepts of management and has participated in the
development of model libraries, including the Library of Alcudia (Mallorca), Can Torró, which in 2010 have turned twenty
years since its commissioning. Bertelsmann Foundation works in four major projects: Diversity Management, Foundations,
Youth Social Entrepreneurship and New Business Culture. In addition, each year organizes Dialogue and Action Congress,
in its 2009 edition was inaugurated by King D. Juan Carlos. (http://www.fundacionbertelsmann.org)
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