Library Buildings around the World

DP6 architectuurstudio, Delft – The Netherlands
http://www.dp6.nl
Libraries:
Sint Nicolasas Lyceum, Amsterdam-Zuid – The Netherlands 2008 – 2012
12.000 m²
A unique school, uniquely located, the Sint-Nicolaaslyceum is a school with high ambitions and driven by sports, culture and
knowledge. The new SNL building will settle into its role and location and find its own iconic footing between the city and the Zuidas;
between culture and commerce. Other than the new location of the school and its surroundings, the identity and ambition of the
lyceum played a major role in the new design. The school for HAVO, VWO and Gymnasium is located along the Amsterdam Zuidas,
and is part of the future Beethoven plan. The new school is also inextricably linked to the lush Beatrixpark. The spacious atrium
in the heart of the building looks out onto the park and connects the proposed public square with the existing park. This building’s
design and environment should motivate its students and encourage an inquisitive education. (DP6)
ICOON, Amersfoort – The Netherlands 2010
The ICOON cluster forms part of the central plan for the new Vathorst quarter in Amersfoort. The programme comprises a school
for secondary education combined with a branch of Schools in Art, and includes a local theatre, library, day-care centre, and a
sports facility. These special functions will help the ICOON become the area’s future cultural heart. The building consists of several
volumes that house the main functions. Between these volumes lie the traffic zones, and the whole is capped by a meandering ‘plaza
landscape’. (DP6)
Hogeschool Utrecht (Library), Amersfoort – The Netherlands 2007 – 2010
The HU in Amersfoort has relocated to a new building where different disciplines can share a collective space. The ground floor
spatially connects through to the first floor through stairs and large voids. The sightlines this design choice creates encourage spatial
awareness, orientation and transparency and makes for easy encounters and dynamism. The floors higher up along the red face of
the building are more peaceful, but they also enjoy the spatial transparency created by the voids. As a direct result of the neutral
floors and the white, homologous ceilings, the overall quality of the building’s interior is calm and collected. Some of the walls are
carried out as ‘poster walls’: walls with portions covered in collages, posters or banners, that can be modified by the users of the HU.
The formal language of the unique elements is orthogonal, with three basic types: white, wood and multi-colored. Special interior
elements for the different courses also have large, easily interchangeable lettering painted on.
Extension Rietveld Lyceum, Doetinchem – The Netherlands 2004
The Rietveld Lyceum school is housed in one of the last buildings designed by the famous Dutch architect, Gerrit Rietveld. The
introduction of the educational concept of study centres and the loss of the use of an annexe meant that an extension was required.
The new facilities will provide some 900 square metres of space to accommodate 7 classrooms as well as reading rooms for 2 study
centres. The basic concept of the extension is to treat the building and its environment as an integral unit by looking for a solution
that not only provides more room while at the same time creating a focal point for the school, but also adds to the quality of the
parkland. The solution was to lower most of the extension below ground level. The resulting view is of a timber-clad volume that
rises out of its surroundings. Daylight is provided by patios, which also act as points of orientation where the study centres find a
place of their own. (DP6)
Ector Hoogstad Architecten, Rotterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.hoogstad.com
http://www.ectorhoogstad.com
(EHA Magazine)
Libraries:
TNO/Geoscience Utrecht, Utrecht – The Netherlands on design
On the edge of Universiteitsterrein "the Uithof" in Utrecht on behalf of the new building of the Dutch TNO Institute of Applied
Geosciences built. This institute is the central geoscientific information and research in the Netherlands. The buildings, housed in a
square volume with the dimensions 80 x 80 m, three storeys high, consisting of office space situated around a glass-roofed outdoor
space. Them in large part on the first floor is an outdoor atrium. This atrium serves as a central circulation space, allowing visitors
from the slightly raised ground floor entrance on the building led into. In the basement next to the entrance to the semi-public office
and laboratory functions housed. The semi-public features include a library, an auditorium and a restaurant with meeting rooms.
The design of the building distinguishes this part of the building by a transparent structure opposite the closed laboratory section.
This separation is accentuated by a sloping wall that flows into an air shaft bovendaks. The air shaft is an important part of the air
control of the atrium. The new building from the entrance by means of ramps connected to the adjacent university buildings.
(http://www.architectenweb.nl)
University Library and Department of Mathematics and Computer Sciences, University Eindhoven,
Eindhoven – The Netherlands 2013
The campus of Eindhoven University of Technology (TU/e) will get a new heart for 55 million euro. A new building will be erected
which is to be the meeting place for students, staff, researchers and visitors. Wednesday December 1 witnessed the starting signal for
this first project of Campus 2020: the TU/e’s accommodation plan. Completion of the new building is expected for the summer of
2012.
New heart
The new building will be the new heart of the TU/e campus, measuring 25,000 square meters and providing accommodation for the
university library as well as some 900 study places for students. Above part of the large covered hall and the building for central
student facilities, a five-storey building will be erected for the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science. It was designed by
architect ir. Joost Ector of Ector Hoogstad Architecten. The building will be realized by construction company Hurks, Imtech
Building Services, Oskomera, ABT, Nelissen ingenieursbureau and Hevo building management. The overall management will be the
responsibility of the university’s Real Estate Management.
“The university campus should be an attractive working and learning environment, a relaxed setting for international students and
scientists to meet. The new building will house the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, while a central place will be
allocated to the university library as well. A grand café and a large covered hall will emphasize the meeting function even more”,
says the TU/e Executive Board.
Campus 2020
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