Library Buildings around the World

Architectuurstudio HH (Herman Hertzberger) Architects and Urban Disigners,
Amsterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.ahh.nl
Libraries:
Utrecht University, New Building Faculty of Science ( Library), Utrecht – The Netherlands 2006 – 2011
The new Faculty of Science is located as a freestanding building on a prominent site of the University Utrecht campus.
Approximately half of the building contains laboratories and the rest provides education and work space on various and open floors,
grouped around the central hall. This atrium-like space is directed to the outside in a coverd outdoor area with an open classroom,
where there is an opportunity of open classroom, where there is an opportunity of open air events. The “oval” freestanding building,
is an island on this area, is on the boder between the inside and outside and provides all opportunities for meetings, which all
contribute to social cohesion. (HH)
http://youtu.be/wQ4xUSWa7NI (Flashmob tijdens opening)
Utrecht University Faculty of Science late for her to realize a new building at the Uithof. The new building replaces the FAFC
Wentgebouw among others, also known as the "punch card". The new building comes at a prominent place on campus, at the corner
of the Leuvenlaan and Universiteitsweg. HH Architecture Studio is responsible for the design, construction technology for the
construction Pieters. The building contains classrooms, laboratories and flexible work spaces and the shape of a horseshoe enclosing
a central hall. This hall is covered, so a five-story atrium is created. In the hall as a separate element of a meeting designed building,
where central facilities are.
Floor Flooring
The office and laboratory areas in the building have a traditional building constructive. The wings consist of a column grid of 7.20 m
by 7.20 m with a flat slab floor. The columns are against the walls to put in which a relatively slender structural floor possible. This
guarantees a great flexibility. The floors in the atrium and stabbing fields with flexible workplaces. These islands provide great sight
lines.
Cantilever
On the entrance side of the building is an area of 30 by 60m as many column kept. This zone is supported by two concrete cores
within the perimeter of the building standing. The construction of the five floors above the entrance kraagt lying all around on the
ground. The ceiling goes up slowly. On one side of the core is one storey high, wide concrete wall designed as a bar works. On the
other hand, a height of only 2m available. Four of the five floors are suspended from a high floor truss on the top floor. This is the
technical layer where the diagonals of the truss is less disturbing.
Facade Construction
The facade of the Universiteitsweg is designed as a two-story steel frame. The facade design is cantilevered steel beams back to the
nuclei. The cantilever trusses with steel tie rods for biasing the fixed nuclei. The tie rods are the core walls around at the back of the
nucleus where to draw the balance to make the weight of the 4m high concrete beam. To the deflections of the cantilevers to reduce
tension on the rods are placed. (http://www.dearchitect.nl)
Noordelijke Hogeschool Leeuwarden, Leeuwarden – The Netherlands 2010
The existing building Bonnema is a late example of structuralism . Hertzberger, one of the most prominent architects in this
movement, chose to leave the building intact. Instead of blocks to add, was a 30,000 square meter ring placed around it. Seen from
above is the two-story building a frame around the existing building. In places where an entrance "underneath" to the courtyard is
created, the existing section also visible from the side. The expansion is flexibly designed, focusing on new and freer forms of
education. Because the support structure is inserted into the walls, column-free space could be left. This creates opportunities for a
freer arrangement of facilities. These include everything from flexible work places, landscapes and study lounges. The old building is
not completely unaffected. In the labyrinthine corridors is more order made by two mutually perpendicular axes to turn it into main
streets. These streets are also connected to the building. In the old building cross each other in the central area, which has a skylight.
With the renovation and expansion facilities are also added as a theater and a new library and bicycle. The construction has lasted
three years and 89 million euros. (http://www.architectenweb.nl)
...Although the initial intention was that the old Bonnema part would only be affected to a minimum extent, this inviolability
gradually turned out to be illusionary. It was clear right from the outset that the central space in the Bonnema building would have
to form the heart of the now double-sized complex, purely due to its position near the large lecture hall, the library and the kitchen.
A mixture of old and new became essential, if only to facilitate the amenities for the greatly increased number of users. Moreover,
the intimacy of Bonnema threatened to become almost stifling as a result of the contrast with the new building with its walls
completely of glass. Thus arose the need for more openness, and all resources were deployed to give the limited available space as
much light and air as possible. A considerable hole in the roof with a simple glass covering brought great relief. The aim was to
adapt the existing building to new insights, yet to alter it as little as possible. It is startling to experience the amount of concessions
you have to make to respond to the changes of insight that have arisen within the short space of twenty-five years and have now
made the building, which undoubtedly satisfied all the scrupulous requirements then, entirely obsolete. The conclusion must be that
in our day and age, in which insights change so rapidly and radically, there is no future for buildings that borrow their architectonic
form from the expression of different functions or the programme of requirements. (Hermann Hertzberger, Transformation and
Extension, in: Hogeschool Leeuwarden, 010: Rotterdam 2011)
CODA (Cultuur Onder Dak Apeldoorn) – museum, municipal archives and library, Appeldoorn –
The Netherlands 2000 – 2004
The periphery of Apart was defined by the bilding lines of the city block in the making, so that the existing “House of Fine Arts” is
enclosed in something resembling a courtyard. The stairs fronting this fine-arts house were drawn into an undulating indoor
landscape covering the museum space below, half of which is tucked underground. Programm-wise the building is in fact a multipleoccupancy
building which besides museum accomodation includes an extension to the adjoining public library plus the municipal
archives, with a reading room, offices, study spaces and a restaurant. All these components face outwards through an all-glass skin
which stresses their accessibility as well as giving a view through to the courtyard. This transparent basement cum display case is
topped off with a hermetically sealed box housing the municipal archives. Entirely without fixed walls, the large museum space is for
the most part sunk beneath the courtyard where is curved roof makes for a rippling street surface. (HH)
Library Breda and Centre for Art and Music De Nieuwe Veste, Breda – The Netherlands 1991 – 1993
The comlex sits for the most part on a large inner courtyard, with a small garden crafted round a protected group of rare
mulberries. It is an amorphous space left between the surrounding existing developments and oversailed by a large roof which, on
the side to the street and following the original curving building line, reinstates this characteristic curve ifonlyin the roofline. Set
beneath this large roof on the upper level is the Center for Art and Music, a sort of elangated box suspended above the undivided
library space covering the entire surface of the available site. The unique value of these trees informed the spatial configuration of
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