Library Buildings around the World

study rooms plus 235 extra workspaces, the canteen, the information centre with its desk, the hallways, and an automated lending
area. To offer students a good second home, we wanted to achieve two important things: a space like the white page of a book where
the students themselves would play the main role in determining how it is filled in, and in certain areas a domestic atmosphere where
the students could also study informally. For instance, in one of the study rooms you will find a number of kitchen tables where you
can work in groups under the lamp, a chesterfield couch for reading a newspaper, various sitting areas for a short break and special
telephone areas in the hallways between the quiet study rooms. The columns in the canteen are transformed into illuminated trees
with low energy light bulbs. Until recently, borrowed books could only be picked up at the library desk during office hours. Now the
students can pick up their ordered books themselves in a newly designed red room that is open until midnight, including weekends.
In red cases with 1105 red crates, piles of books lie ready for the borrowers. Because these books come from different locations, this
is the heart of the University Library, with a back office hidden from view in which the books are readied for self-service with the
RFID system. (http://www.archdaily.com)
MV Architects Marjolein Vreeburg, Amsterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.mvarchitects.nl
Schipholbibliotheek (Airport Library), Amsterdam – The Netherlands 2010
Schiphol is the first airport in the world with its own permanent library. The library's cultural showpiece of the Netherlands.
The Library is located behind the airport passport control. Passengers can while they wait for their flight, reading and music. It is
not possible to lending books. iPads are integrated into the design to listen to music or short movies about the Netherlands. Marjolein
Vreeburg of MV Architects says that the library had to be put down as an attention-getter without uniformity and transparency of
the entire area to lose. This is done through book slender and high towers, the void insert allowing the pass ¬ passenger, also an
impression on the first floor of the Airport Library receives. The design studio has designed include the previously Schiphol
Babycare Lounge, Kids Forest and restaurant Pier 01. In the library literature in 29 languages available. There are books translated
from Dutch authors and works on, among others, the Dutch architecture, art and photography. The books have a picture of the
Dutch culture. The Library is located at an airport location at the airport where passengers are mostly transferring. "We want
passengers to inspire the next time really to make a visit to the Netherlands'', explains CEO Jos Nijhuis of the airport. "This is a
cultural showpiece of the Netherlands.''Besides books is via digital photos on a TV screen an image of the Netherlands is outlined.
Princess Laurentien opened the library a few books to offer. She named the Airport Library, a cross-border initiative. The Airport
Library seven days a week, 24 hours a day. The bookstore around the corner says not to fear competition from the new library. "I
think the people who really are after buying a book,''will continue to come here, explains a saleswoman. She looks even have the
benefit of it. "People who only come to books and magazines to read, but buy nothing, we can now refer.''
(http://www.architectenweb.nl)
MVRDV, Rotterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.mvrdv.nl
Libraries:
Spijkenisse Bibliotheek – The Netherlands 2009 – 2011
A new public library, on site at inner Spijkenisse near Rotterdam, will feature the literal translation of “a montain of reading” by
creating a transparent layer around the book stacking system. With a surface of 10,000 m2 the library will use a glass membrance,
referred to as the “bell jar”, to make a feature of the contents creating an evolving picture from the outside when books are
borrowed, replaced and moved. At the corner of a major throughway, the library designed by MVRDV will be visible from the
central market square and the church opposite (http://worldarchitecturenews.com)
The design "The Book Store" by architects MVRDV of Rotterdam has won the competition for the new central library Spijkenisse.
The design was chosen over "The City Library" by architect Hans Ruijssenaars, and "The Sphinx" by architect Jeanne Dekkers.
MVRDV is a world renowned and award-winning architecture collective that made its name in particular by the design of the Dutch
Pavilion for the Expo 2000 exhibition in Hanover. MVRDV represents Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs and Nathalie de Vries. They were
among others involved in the future study for the Brabant Library in 2004. (http://www.tijdelijkebibliotheek.nl)
Neutelings Riedijk Architects, Rotterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.neutelings-riedijk.com
Libraries:
City Hall and Library, Deventer – The Netherlands 1 st PrizeCompetition 2006
24.000 m², € 30.000.000hw City Hall and Library project blends into the heart of the old mediaeval centre of Deventer. A new public square, sunken in the ground, is
The new City Hall and Library project blends into the heart of the old mediaeval centre of Deventer. A new public square, sunken in
the ground, is created in the inner urban block behind the old town hall. The library and the service counters of the municipality are
mixed together as one large city information centre, organized around this square. A cupola shaped building that contains the offices
of the city administration covers the square and forms a large atrium. The top of the cupola is conceived as a panoramic winter
garden, a public space for parties and official celebrations. (Neutelings)
Culturhouse Arnhem –The Netherlands 1 st prize competition design 2009, start construction 2010
12.000 m², € 20.000.000
This cultural building is organized as a public route that meanders up from the narrow streets of the medieval city center of
Arnhem. The activities of this knowledge center enroll along this public cascade: library, reading rooms, music classes, art studio’s,
study areas, exposition spaces, auditorium, cafeteria and bookshop. A giant bookcase as a spine for display, storage and vertical
circulation forms the center of the building. Around it, large column free floors surfaces can be arranged in a flexible way. The route
to the top culminates in a panoramic roof terrace, overlooking the Rhine River. (Neutelings)
Eemhuis – Cultur House, Ammersfoort – The Netherlands design 2006, under construction 2010
15.000 m², € 19.000.000
The Eemhuis is a cultural centre that combines the city library, a pop concert hall, the regional archives and an arts school. The
building is organized as a vertical stacking of these programs that enhances the continuity of the public domain into the building. At
the ground floor, the public square becomes a covered plaza, the foyer of the pop concert hall. At the other end, the plaza steps up
gradually to form a terraced library. On the top of the stairs the library spills into a vast open space overlooking the city. Above it
hovers the archive volume that forms the ceiling of this space. The attic of the building houses the arts school. The three arts
departments (theatre & dance, visual arts and music) are each expressed separately as cantilevered beams that crown the complex.
(Neutelings)
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