Library Buildings around the World

Bibliotheek Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden (Prov. Friesland) – The Netherland on design (2010)
Leeuwarden for the Central Library in The Fair monument, designed an innovative and inspiring AEQUO library concept that both
the library and function as a Stock Exchange building is positioned as a progressive cultural facility in Leeuwarden. Here is the
preservation of historical and spatial quality of the building is an important starting point. The new library features a welcoming,
open and transparent appearance and has a magnetic effect on the audience. The customer will be inspired, challenged and invited
into the library to study and long stay. The design consists of removing all connections between the old context and built from the 80
and adding a new autonomous objects. Within the space blobs are placed in various shapes, colors and functions, which house the
collection. The installation manifests as a large piece of furniture across multiple layers. Because the reading café also serves as a
secondary entrance to the theater / debate center outside library opening hours operate separately and thus a major player within
the cultural spectrum of Leeuwarden. (AEQUO)
Bibliotheek Heteren, Heteren (Prov. Gelderland -Zuid) – The Netherlands 2010
For Library Heteren Aequo interior designs for the new library in an existing building. This building [the former town] is extended
to a community school where in addition to the library, 2 primary schools and childcare will host itself. The library presents itself as
an educational meeting where the focus is on developing reading and media literacy for youth to 14 yrs and recreational reading for
youth and adults. This is due to finalize the installation of and cooperation with other institutions in the Community school. In
designing the plan, several design layers are defined as handling the entry, information delivery, presentation, digitization,
communication, meeting, routing, collection, internet, kids and side orders. These eleven layers are combined an overall plan that is
recognizable as a library in the Gelderland-Zuid region where Aequo by a space designed for Ruimte Kwaliteits Plan. This is a guide
for all libraries in the region, Heteren where the thitd bilding. (AEQUO)
Bibliotheek Uithoorn , Uithoorn, Amstelland (Prov. Noord-Holland) – The Netherlands 2010
Designs for the Library Uithoorn Aequo a restyling of the interior. The library is in its current form already about 20 years housed
in a building designed by architect Rietveld (1965, Gerrit Rietveld, the only church that Rietveld designed, now library and
community center of the neighborhood Zijdel Worth). Following the introduction of new technologies and the implementation of a
new program, upgrading of the library interior desirable. Key words here are "seduce and meet 'and the priorities include
upgrading the capabilities for meeting, create temptation by frontal presentation and launch of retail communication technologies
and upgrading the entrance. The plan Aequo provides an inexpensive and simple setup making the building more visible and the
true treasure, Rietvels room is unlocked. (AEQUO)
Flevo Meer Bibliotheek Lelystad, Lelystad (Provincie Flevoland) – The Netherlands 2009
AEQUO is designing the interior of a new, urban library for the Lelystad Library in the heart of a new area in the city centre.
Library Lelystad is Europe´s first Department Store of Knowledge. In the design retail elements are taken from their usual context.
This creates a new tension field, revolving around temptation, inspiration and encounters. The library, 3.650 m² and 3 storeys, is
divided into 27 shop-in-shops based on interest profiles each with their own colour and sphere. Through triggering-store
communication [windowdummies manequins with T-shirts as communication aid, lightboxes and overhead communication] the
attraction of the product itself is the central focus. (AEQUO)
For more Flevo Libraries Foundation has Aequo the interior of a new library in the metropolitan heart of the new part of the design
center. Leystad Library is the first European Knowledge Warehouse. In its retail interior design elements from the usual context.
This mix of familiarity and alienation creates a new tension which is all about seduction, inspiration and meet. The library, 3650 m2
and three floors, is divided into 27 shop-in-shops based on interest profiles, each with its own color and style. Through trigger-using
in-store communication [mannequins, mannequins with T-shirts as communication medium, light boxes and overhead communcatie]
the appeal of the product-centered put. With the opening of library Leystad is also launching the innovative cabinet by Aat Vos
Designed aatvos | K02 site. This cabinet is constructed entirely of extruded aluminum and available in any width and height.
In Lelystad Flevo this month the library which opened office Aequo the interior design. Ath Aequo Fox believes that the current time
for a new library typology, partly because the function of the vanishing community centers must overcome. To attract more visitors,
he seduction strategies that went into the design of stores are used. The library should remain where the less fortunate in society, but
also an attractive place for people who have money. This end, the architects compete with the warehouse where people are tempted
to shop and consume: a library, such an enticing place to be to stay and to borrow books. To this end, the architect several seduction
strategies that consumers in shops and department stores to get buy, also used in the design for the interior of the library. The decor
and signage, and communication within the library, resemble the interior of stores. Not only the design differs from the traditional
library facility on the library bookcase has its own system. This was designed by K02 Aat Vos and has no system allowing
measurements in each size available. Entirely in the style, the shelves were replaced with presentation boards and presenting
tableaux. (http://www.architectenweb.nl)
Bibliotheek Vleuterweide, Vleuterweide (Prov. Utrecht) – The Netherlands 2009
For Library Utrecht Aequo a new interior design style this week for the first time the public was shown in the renovated branch
Vleuterweide. Thursday, January 19 Alderman Harm Janssen opened the second library of Utrecht 'new style'. This is characterized
by a striking use of color, bright and clear layout, lots frontal presentation, clear communication and information, a new collection of
layout and special furniture. Much of this furniture and custom made by Aequo designed for the library of Utrecht, where we have
been inspired by the simplicity, clarity and expertise of Dick Bruna and Gerrit Rietveld. The new interior style is based on a manual,
which the library of Utrecht Aequo previously made. Vleuterweide The library is the second in a row: in December 2008 opened
branch Tuinwijk in the same style. (AEQUO)
For the Library Utrecht designs AEQUO a new interior-style which was shown in the rebuild department Vleuterweide to the public
for the first time...The library is characterized by a striking use of colors, bright and clear grouping, many frontal possibilities for
presentation lucid communication and information, a new classification for the collection and special furniture. Aequo designed
much of this furniture and measure work, which was inspired by the simplicity, clarity and craftsmanship of Dick Bruna and Gerrit
Rietveld. The new interior-style is based on a manual, which Aequo made for Library Utrecht. (AEQUO)
How can multiple disciplines within a map are placed so that they both each other and enhance the urban environment. This was the
central issue within the interior project "Cultural Campus Vleuterweide" and "community center The Crystal Rotterdam
Nesselande" that AEQUO recently realized. Within the Cultural Campus Vleuterweide, designed by Vera Yanovshtchinsky
architects from The Hague, designed AEQUO furnishing the information square. In this square, all users of the campus [including
the Church of Utrecht, Utrecht Library, Utrecht Centre for the Arts Foundation and Church Leidsche Rijn] together, and together
they offer information to users, visitors and interested. Equivalence and cooperation are the pillars method of AEQUO and are also
evident in these projects forward. Instead of an adjacent arrangement of the functions suggested AEQUO for both projects for the
program to rewrite a new program for the joint functions. The starting point was that not the customer, but customer-centric: the
degree of publicity or privacy, in other words the gradient of the function determines the position of the program within the interior.
That yielded new and interesting perspectives. Architect Aat Vos commented: "The plan for the information square Vleuterweide is
conceived as a passenger compartment of a monastery with a large monastery bank on further consideration a range of features
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