Library Buildings around the World

uilding looks solid, according to the serious look of a scientific institute. Brick facades with small windows emphasize the large scale
of the building. In two corners there are big holes in the walls, however made. Extremely large glass panes underline as the diagonal
opening of the building. Clearly, in the Forum building in an orderly way, many features have been incorporated. The life of
students and teachers is undoubtedly become more comfortable through, but the question is whether the building is a symbol of the
university will grow. The solid, somewhat dull character appearing in any case that it directly as a new logo on the retina is burned.
(http://www.architectenweb.nl)
Rapp+Rapp, Rotterdam – The Netherlands
http://www. rappenrapp.nl
Libraries:
penbare bibliotheek Utrecht, Utrecht – The Netherlands 2012
18,000 m² library
3,000 square art house, 120 apartments, 260 parking spaces Client: Municipality of Utrecht plan development Start: 2008
Completion: 2012 building costs: € 50 million
There are quite a few steps put into developing the new Library + + 'next to Utrecht Central. The Board agrees with the final award
to architects Rapp + Rapp, the plan for the redevelopment of the Smakkelaarsveld and financial impact. The design process can now
go. The new library is a building that literally and figuratively to the imagination. Library Artplex and apartments under one roof
, the new building is not a traditional "store house of books." The addition of such organizations Artplex (film & entertainment) and
Art Library is the place for information in Utrecht, floor, relaxation and meeting. Of course you are still books, CDs and art lend.
But you can also play games, attend a lecture or debate, watch a movie, a cup of coffee or a bite to eat. The building also provides
space for approximately 120 apartments, parking and bicycle parking. You may receive the Utrecht Centre for the Arts also has a
place in the building. There, after a decision taken. The construction costs for the construction of the new Library + + (including
housing and parking) amount to more than 90 million euros. The council is asked voorbereidingskrediet of 2.2 million euros
available for the further development of vision to Preliminary Design. This is expected to be completed late 2010. According to
current planning the new library opened in 2015. (http://www.bibliotheek-utrecht.nl)
Rappange & Partners Architects, Amsterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.rappange.nl
Libraries:
Library Diemen – Wilhemina Plantsoen, Diemen (Prov. North-Holland) – The Netherlands 2008
Commissioned by the former Rabo Vastgoed Rabo office on Wilhelmina Plantsoen Diemen converted into 43 apartments, 600 m2
public library, 400 m2 Rabobank branch and 46 covered parking spaces. For the library, the entire interior design including
furniture, furnishings and lighting. (Rappange)
On behalf of the former Rabo Vastgoed Rabo office on Wilhelmina Plantsoen grown in Diemen. The conversion of this office, the
walls completely demolished. The remaining hull: floors, columns, stairwells and elevator shafts were the starting point for the new
design. This resulted in 43 spacious apartments with generous terraces and logia's. On the ground floor is a bank branch, a branch
of the public library and 43 indoor parking spaces. (http://www.architectenweb.nl)
RAU, Amsterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.rau.eu
Libraries:
ROC Leiden, Leiden – The Netherlands 2003 - 2011
Gross floor area: 54,300 m2
Function: Regional Training Centre in VMBO, offices, industrial, retail and parking garage
Performance: including flexible structure and layout of siding recycle. concrete and low net / gross floor ratio by integrating systems
in the construction
The ROC Leiden, with over 10,000 students and 800 staff are awaiting resettlement. Drive around Lammenschans arises from such a
new vision of vocational training and work a busy city: easily accessible, on a human scale and literally transparent. Lammenschans:
the triangle between the Leiden-Utrecht railway (stop RijnGouweLijn), the Rhine-Schie canal and Lammenschansweg (close to A4).
A gateway to the eastern flank of Leiden potential. The ROC - vocational training for thousands of students, hundreds of directions
and dozens of buildings. "Innovative learning:" learning in an open, entrepreneurial and socially responsible institution where the
individual career comes first ". This innovation takes the same time as the building form. The new ROC stacks and traffic
capabilities to a light, ascending, meandering building on an otherwise vacant parking lot of the ROC. Thus, in the same gesture and
shadow noise nuisance to adjacent residential area, the moving pressure and land costs kept to a minimum. A surprising urban
design theory in which all forms of education visible. Suppose you were the small buildings of a large educational campus that is now
widely distribute over the space stacking up to 5 towers sloping at 3 different large tables. You would win for outdoor plazas. Then
you could loose buildings grouped on and around the table tops. That were beyond the courtyards. It was not a building but a small
vertical town from different buildings. Because markets and associated ramps. Not only before the building but also in the building
heights are staggered squares, with green and shops. The most central market in the center of the building is accessible via
escalators. Here are the library and information center. The different activities are grouped around these markets, places of
encounter and cross-fertilization. All the 'accommodation' together form the "ROC City. ROC is part of many traffic. Thousands of
train passengers passing through every day Lammenschans station (purple). Disembarked, they decorated with green cover by
means of ROC (green) to the present paved "active" square socket on the local bus (yellow), or the green zitplein the fast tram (red).
1,500 bicycles and 750 cars disappear under ROC (blue). Our own expedition runs from behind (pink). For a great layout flexibility,
both the ceiling clouds and the connecting point for air conditioning, electrical and data cabling all tuned to a grid of 1.8 m. This
allows even the smallest pattern in this room of 1.8 meters at any place in the building realized. (RAU)
Multifunktionszentrum Antares (Tabakssteeg) Leusden Zuid, Leusden – The Netherlands 2005 - 2010
Gross floor area: 8.400 m2
Function: 2 primary schools, nursery, playgroup, after school, public library, community center, gym and free rentable space
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