Library Buildings around the World

continuously in search of the poetic situation is has taught at ITESO and Technology Guadalajara Lipkau Gustavo graduated from
the Faculty of Architecture of the UNAM, among other awards, has received the prize in Lino Library Picaseño of their alma mater,
and the landscape Tonatiuh Martinez, who has extensive experience in advising on landscape design. In addition to the designation
of the winner, the jury decided to award the second to Eric Owen Moss and partners, and third place to David Chipperfield
Architects. Eric Owen Moss (Los Angeles, California, USA), is a graduate of Arts and Master of Architecture from the University of
California. As director of the firm Eric Owen Moss Architects, since 1973 has designed and built several award-winning
architectural works. Finally, the Englishman David Chipperfield, founded in 1984, the firm David Chipperfield Architects, a firm of
international repute, a supplier of integrated architecture, master planning, interior design, product design services and furniture,
which has carried out urban planning , furniture and tall towers in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, Holland, China, Japan,
Italy, Spain and the United States. The terrain of the new Library Vasconcelos occupies an area of almost four acres square--37.692
meters, of which one third is occupied by the building that is surrounded by a botanical garden that protects and insulates the sound
library also to offer visitors a taste of the national flora, as it has been created from specific criteria for classification and sorting.
Thus, the proposed architecture of Alberto Kalach and his team has as main feature the use of this new public infrastructure to
develop a green area covering not only the grounds of the library, but extend to adjacent spaces. The construction system is based on
a particular subject to three-dimensional structure that makes up three consecutive spacecraft to form a long linear building. The
outer shell is rigid concrete frames, while the inside is steel. The south facade facing the street hip, polished concrete is apparent. It
appreciates the access ramp to the underground parking. In the west facade is the main entrance. This game presents a facade
tucked into the ground floor is tilted and has attached a series of umbrellas to reduce the incidence of solar rays into the enclosure.
The architectural design of a cube, so that all space is modulated by the geometric shape. The interior structure is hung from the
exterior structure, which allows the architectural plan is free, so that the construction is based on a suspended system, from which
hangs structure which makes the property is supported by columns metal heads. The library building, which according to the design
of the architects emulates a living organism, is modulated into three sections between each of the modules are in service areas. Is 270
meters long and 28 meters high. The amphitheater is bright thanks to the play of transparency that gives the ceiling and walls of
glass. It has three upper levels, a ground floor and basement parking. The books are located in a series of hanging bookshelves,
located in the central part of the structure, forming a sort of backbone, which allows travel throughout the building. The library is
divided into ten thematic areas corresponding to: Natural Sciences and Mathematics Applied Sciences, Social Sciences, Literature,
Fine Arts, Religion, Philosophy, History and Geography; Consultation Publications and Newspapers, General Inquiry, Language
and Library Youth and Cultural Services, in addition to the annexes consisting of an auditorium, library and administrative area.
Downstairs there are several multipurpose rooms. From the lobby you can appreciate the game of doubles and triples heights. In the
middle third is where it reaches a height of 28 meters. At the center are the steps that lead to conflicting level of consultation. The tile
floor is finished in granite and the redwood. At the center of the lobby, between shelves of books, a huge fleet gray whale skeleton
forty feet long that greets visitors. The sculpture is a creation of visual artist Gabriel Orozco, who required the work of an expert
group which undertook a cetacean almost complete rescue that was found on Sand Island in the Biosphere Reserve of Vizcaino, in
Baja California South and move your bones to Mexico City to reshape its skeleton in a metal frame designed to hold the mammal.
Orozco worked the 137 bones with graphite to draw with geometric shapes that follow the dynamics of bone structure. Vasconcelos
Library was opened on May 16, 2006. It has a staff consisting of 365 people who meet profiles in various disciplines (including 125
librarians). It has a capacity of four thousand 783 concurrent users, with four thousand places reading and 750 computers connected
to Internet. The shelf is hanging open and read the options are many, and you can use reading places, the outdoor room, or take the
form of home lending. While its initial stock was 500 thousand volumes is projected to grow to half a million volumes and
consultation. Also, the library is a data center and telecommunications in the near future link to more than seven thousand state and
municipal libraries operating throughout the country and constitute the National Network of Public Libraries, to this end, the
museum has with the most advanced systems and library developments, technological, educational and architectural. It also has a
language laboratory, a cafeteria and a bookstore. Moreover, the main auditorium of the campus library began with a gala
performance of dance, music and song, featuring talented young nationals. This space thousand 100 square meters and capacity for
520 spectators, is equipped with advanced technology and is ideal for holding conferences, roundtables, academic meetings, film,
theater, music, dance and dramatic readings. (http://www.indaabin.gob.mx)
Jonah who was to survive for seven days inside the whale, in his mind building a space where it could accommodate such a creature.
But the mind is always larger inside than outside, and the space was developed into a large vault which Jonah was filled with his
thoughts. I had thoughts of all kinds and was organized according to different categories , created a numerical system to catalog and
was designated a color to each one to recognize it. Day by day Jonah discovered a new place in space and realized that the dome was
growing as he traveled. The whale had been lost in the immensity of his memory and felt a great loneliness. It was so one day he
ventured outside and found herself in a garden surrounded by trees and plants with shapes and colors are impossible to categorize ,
felt life growing between his feet and could hear the rustling of the leaves that they said : Jonah Where have been the leaves, stems
and branches ? And Jonah answered them, are suspended in time , like the skeleton of a whale. Text : Pedro Rosenblueth
Biblioteca Pública Guadalajara, Jalisco – Mexico concurso 2006
Designed to serve more than four thousand users simultaneously, the new Central Public Library? José Vasconcelos?, Will house
one and a half million books and will feature virtual museum, language lab, science room, music, exhibitions and conferences as well
as an area to care for people with special needs. On a surface of 37 thousand 692 meters square, erected in the grounds near the old
train station in Buenavista, north of Baghdad, will be inaugurated on Tuesday by President Vicente Fox The project architect
Alberto Kalach, which was selected from more than 590 proposals, had a cost of almost one billion pesos (949, 034, 168, 63) and is
designed to cater for four thousand 783 users simultaneously. It has a library area of 11 thousand 692 meters square and is
surrounded by a botanical garden, covering an area of 26 thousand square meters and will have greenhouse, parking, cafeteria,
conference rooms and projections as well as a museum. Of the five levels that comprise the library, three are of the acquis and
reading, as in the first usurious find periodicals, a collection of the Youth Library, and a language laboratory as well as providing
care for people with special abilities. The second level will protect works of literature, fine arts, philosophy, psychology, religion,
geography and history, while in the following texts will be on science, math, technology and social sciences. The new "Biblioteca José
Vasconcelos? will have 750 computers connected to the Internet, service to be offered for free to the public in general. In this space,
will also have music room, exhibition area, interactive science room, virtual museum, auditorium, library news and, four thousand
places dedicated to reading. The head of the National Council for Culture and the Arts (Conaculta), Sari Bermudez, said that unlike
other public places as the Palace of Fine Arts and the National Auditorium, the new? Biblioteca Vasconcelos? not charge admission,
because their motto is? Public Library all the books are yours? . Source: Notimex. (http://noticias.universia.net.mx)
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