Library Buildings around the World

Campus 2020 is the accommodation plan of TU/e for the site where the university was founded in 1956. The university has nine
Departments with a total of 7,000 students and 3,000 staff members. Campus 2020 is to be realized over the next decade and the total
investment involved amounts to some 250 million euro. Campus 2020 fits in with the transformation of the TU/e grounds into a
Science Park, which is to include permanent accommodation for students as well as a place where research enterprises can be
established.
For more information see www.tue.nl/campus2020 (http://www.architectenweb.nl)
In the heart of the campus, the library and the central library of the university. Moreover, also a pub lunch, the Notebook Service
Centre and the sale of lecture notes. The building is a large number of amenities including several studies classrooms and many
individual study areas. (http://www.tue.nl)
Learning Center, Delft University of Technology, Delft – The Netherlands 2013
Hoogstad sector was chosen as architect for the first major construction project at TU Delft outside the property. That the university
announced today. Architectural means for the construction of Delft Chem Tech and the Department of Biotechnology of the Faculty
of Applied Physics a unique architectural hat trick ': all three Dutch technical universities are now realizing a design by Ector
Hoogstad Architects. The Delft University has Ector Hoogstad Architects chosen for the project following a European tender
procedure. The complex consists of 26,000 m2 of laboratories, universities and offices. The location is Technopolis, the new business
campus along the A13, adjacent to the university grounds. The draft vision Ector Hoogstad Architects proposes a square-shaped
building with a central space in the heart, partly inside and partly outside. According to Joost Ector is such a vital meeting place in a
school building. "Space is the social heart of the building. Education is not just about passing on knowledge, but mainly to the
development of new knowledge by sharing. Organizing and staging encounters between users is the starting point. " The new
assignment in Delft means that all three Dutch universities are designing Ector Hoogstad Architects realize. For the University of
Twente is building an office complex with teaching and research laboratory nano (40,000 m2). It was already the new master plan
for the UT campus made. And Eindhoven University of Technology alumnus Ector chose last year for the new building for the
Central Student Services and the Department of Mathematics and Computer Science (26,000 m2). The realization of this begins in
2009. (http://architectuur.nl)
“Orion” Learning Center, Wageningen University, Wageningen – The Netherlands 2013
Ector Hoogstad Architects will design the new education building of Wageningen UR. The complex will be located between the Atlas
and Forum buildings and its name will be ‘Orion’. The hunter in Greek mythology after whom the constellation in the northern
winter sky is named signifies power. Ector Hoogstad’s design vision is emphatically inspired by nature. Logic, efficiency and
sustainability are the starting points for this building, according to architect Joost Ector. In addition to a large number of auditoria
and other study and class rooms, there will also be a student restaurant. To get a good idea of the users’ wishes, the staff of the
architectural firm will be working on campus for two weeks. Students and staff also had the opportunity to convey their wishes
during meetings with the architect in April (2009). Orion, which should be finished at the end of 2012, is intended to form the social
core of Wageningen Campus, together with Forum. Ector Hoogstad previously designed education complexes for the technical
universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente. Info: elisa.salentijn@wur.nl (http://www.wur.nl)
Ector Hoogstad Architects, on the order of Wageningen University and Research Centre (WUR), a large school building design:
Forum II. It was announced today. The new complex joins between the familiar buildings of Rafael Viñoly and Quist Wintermans
Architects . Gebouw designs themselves when preparing the winning design vision Ector Hoogstad Architects is strongly inspired by
nature. This will close the agency with the motto of WUR: To explore the potential of nature, to Improve the Quality of Life. "We try
to move as a designer in nature. Logic, efficiency and sustainability are therefore the principles for this building. They can lead to a
clear building, which to some extent self-designs, "said architect Joost Ector. Heart Social Forum II receives a large number of
lecture halls, classrooms and study as well as catering. The student restaurant is on the ground floor, directly above the lecture.
Some of these will be switched into a large, auditorium-like room. Higher in the building - where it is quieter - get instruction and
teaching labs. Everything is interwoven with a large number of study places and landscapes. The building will therefore, together
with the Social Forum I heart shapes of Wageningen Campus. More universities Wageningen University and Research Centre is the
fourth university which Ector Hoogstad Architects is currently active. For the technical universities of Delft, Eindhoven and Twente
builds teaching and research office complexes totaling over 100,000 m2. The new theme-building should be ready in 2013.
(http://architectuur.nl)
Picasso Lyceum, Zoetermeer (Prov. South-Holland) – The Netherlands 2009
In true vision of the school office has received a modest height of only three layers. The lower the better is the motto, because vertical
distances in a larger barrier in communication and interaction than horizontal distances. The location in Zoetermeer offered just
enough room for such a low building. The new building is so wide and deep and covers the tricky, because infrastructure pinched lot
almost full. Striking is the organization of the building, which is divided into different "domains", each with clusters of related
subjects. The added value of this is organizational cohesion and the ability to easily cross-curricular projects to launch. The six areas
are language, people and society, exactly, art, sport and ICT. The domains are connected via a covered street, and consist of large
and small classrooms around a Werkplein. This open study landscape 'is also equipped with modern ICT facilities such as
interactive whiteboards. Although the building was officially opened today, it is already in use for several weeks. The school houses a
"population" of about eleven hundred students and teachers. Moreover, the idea that the building not only serves as a school, but
also a role in the district receives. Thus, the assembly hall during the week after the sounding of the last school bell used as a full
theater. (http://architectenweb.nl)
Utrecht University of Applied Sciences, Library, Department of Education, Utrecht – The Netherlands
2008
The Department of Education (FE) forms the westerly closure of the "kashba-zone" of the Uithof. In this hundred-metre-wide strip,
buildings bunch-up close together with patios and rooflights providing daylight penetration. The colourful west façade gives the HU
a face towards the city, makes the building scale-less and abstract, while also alluding to the speed of the traffic racing past. The
façade is an expression of the occupants and their diverse activities, a metaphor for the HU's multifaceted community.
(http://www.mimoa.eu)
Avans University of Applied Sciences, Tilburg – The Netherlands 2007
In its architectural expression, the building presents itself like a system of floor-areas whose in-between spaces are filled with glass.
Behind the façades - finished in pigmented concrete, aluminium ceilings, steel-slated balustrades and timber window and door
frames - a grey-hued and green-accented world opens up. A horizontal and vertical scenic landscape beckons you to enter, meet
people and have the time of your life. (http://www.mimoa.eu)
HES School of Economics Studies, Amsterdam – The Netherlands 2003
The ambition of Hoogstad Architects for the project is unchanged. The assignment is a challenge to make a college building by the
scale can be interpreted as a small village and that the large urban dynamics will assume, a very positive impact on the environment.
Several thousand mostly young users coming into the building to study, teach, work, collaborate and meet. Today's educational
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