Library Buildings around the World

For the construction of the district Tobacco Lane (Leusden-Zuid) creates a truly multi-purpose center. Already in the run saw the
opportunity to sum to more than the parts. Together under one roof is more than building a share, it creates additional
opportunities. In the Gelderland Valley between Leusden Leusden Centre and South, west bounded by the 'cherry line (track)
created the residential Tobacco Alley.Tobacco brought here in the 17th and 18th centuries temporary wealth. And tobacco fields
with little in between "comfortable bunches" of alder and lime, dominated by huge barns. 'Living Village', a diverse neighborhood
of 880 homes. For starters, families and seniors. A comprehensive service center of 6500 m2 will house childcare (KDV and BSO) a
kindergarten, a public elementary school and a Protestant Christian, a gym, a library, community center and a 12 starter homes.
Are all under the roof of a large brown "community shed", with entries in all directions. By combining internal activities, there is
growing space for new products. So the library will provide the documentation for the schools and the community center with an
entry form: the reading café. Hall lived in the farmhouse the farmer and his family with horses and other livestock under the same
roof and Horticultural. Each in his own place around the beams and the common interior space. For all their own, instantly
recognizable living room and entrance. For cattle and sheep the sunken deep litter with high and low door, the horses next door
bannerlord great, the people most of the windows were. In the shadow of the linden bun. Around two patios are from the northeast
corner of the two elementary schools, the library (south), the community center, the PSZ, the KDV (west) and a covered bicycle shed
(north). All with one face and entrance to the street. The gym is on the first floor in the heart of the building, the BSO above the
community center. At the western end of the first and second floors 12 apartments. All other user groups can also also within reach
through. Each user has a smooth finished and easy to clean 'service box', with toilets, storage, kitchen and the elevator and stairs.
Each box has its own distinctive, both inside and outside immediately recognizable color. In the more kept mostly gray and white
interior, with a concrete floor screed with transparent white whitewashed ceiling and leaves room for the imagination, these bright
boxes direction. To protect children playing outside the fences without having to place the squares two feet deeper. Bicycles can not
just take away and if children are not just steps away. Also in the building are the departments studied. The transition to the next
user is always marked by a very lazy kick - 5 steps of 10 cm. - Which directly represents a stand and a play object. "Together in a
building 'delivers on all fronts value. Double rooms can be used: the local library is also working as a library for the school and if
space remains, a theater and auditorium. The craft room at school in the afternoon for the BSO and evening courses. That makes a
difference: in the land seized in construction costs in cleaning, maintenance, energy - more compact form - and to personnel. (RAU)
Haarlemmermeer Lyceum and Public Library, Hoofddorp – The Netherlands 2000 - 2005
Gross floor area: 10,200 m2
Function: Montessori education VWO, HAVO and VMBO, two gymnasiums and a public library (see aequo http://www.aequo.nl).
Performance: including concrete core, heat pump system, ceiling clouds, thermal storage, renewable materials balanced ventilation
with heat recovery
The world upside down? An integrated school, library and space for social and cultural facilities built in a landscape that is new
construction to be formed. Haarlemmermeer district Floriande and its facilities are together! The municipality of Haarlemmermeer
in June 1995 along with the provincial and central government including the Covenant Implementation Vinex (Fourth
Memorandum on Spatial Planning Extra) closed. According to this agreement in the Haarlemmermeer in the period from 1995 to
2005 approximately 17,400 homes built. Floriande (Hoofddorp), 6500 is the largest of four locations. A district can build a
community must grow. For that you meet, get to know each other, doing things together. Haarlemmermeer Lyceum and the new
library here in symbiosis Floriande to a head and heart function to fulfill: a glass cup filled with knowledge and a strong red back
which everything depends. A square with room for seats, instead of bicycles. They stand on the roof. Mothers with children on their
way to the library, people who are sports, school children and high school students, everyone to function separately but together -
especially in the center - again and again touching. The solid red back ends in a glass head that is filled with the thoughts of
centuries, blue and shimmering against the sky emerges. a quiet contrast to the surrounding buildings resurrection. Forward
ranging from an introverted extrovert and a safe learning environment in communication library. On the one hand serve the
individual training, on the other, the development of the individual to the community. The left flank, the various educational groups,
each with their own accommodation, the library building up in age and size: Montessori, substructure, superstructure and subject
rooms. The scale and 'green' tie in with the form and structure of the 'garden city' Floriande. On the right flank hooks the
community with sports, an auditorium and administrative support. This end goes into a common square. Aanfietsende the pupil
runs along a ramp at the edge of the square on the roof of the auditorium and descends into the school. In school, all functions by a
ramp connected. It leaves the auditorium and turn it back at half height. Which initially has a gallery, forming a balcony above.
Then Meet the stairs to the bicycle, and end with the hanging high in the library media center. Right under the smoke of Schiphol is
not necessarily suited to the outdoors for natural ventilation. Acceding to the inside air is to be 'controlled' within. And will also edit
out again: after heat recovery. The combination of concrete core with which acoustic ceiling clouds and light facilities are included
ensures a pleasant indoor climate (koeling!) and excellent acoustics. (RAU)
Hans Ruijssenaars architecten – de architectengroep, Amsterdam – The Netherlands
http://www.ruijsenaars.nl
Libaries:
Bibliotheek Ijsselstein, (Leck & Ijssel) Prov. Utrecht, Ijsselstein - The Netherlands on progress 2011
see also: aequo http://www.aequo.nl
Faculteit der Rechtsgeleerdheid Bibliotheek Leiden, Leiden - The Netherlands 1998 – 2004
20.000.000 m², € 29.300.000
The monumental Kamerlingh Onnes Laboratory of Leiden in the city dates from 1856. Solitary buildings of the complex in a park
developed by compaction into a new city block. Until recently, physicists working in this Laboratory named after the Leiden
professor Heike Kamerlingh Onnes. He reached the first temperature to a thousandth of a degree above absolute zero (-273 C) and
the superconductivity discovered in passing. Other great physicists like Lorentz, Bohr and Einstein worked in the laboratory or
lectures as a guest lecturer. After an extensive renovation, the complex Kamerlingh shelter to accommodate the entire law faculty.
This faculty was gradually dispersed over a large number of buildings and is now back together in one building. The original
building at the Stone Barn is on the outside restored the historic facade of architect of the King (King William) Henry FGN Camp
(1821 - 1875) visible. From inside the building is renovated with valuable interior elements such as the impressive lecture intact. The
already built in the last century, the new central entrance vestibule. The buildings on the Nieuwsteeg maintained. Of the buildings on
the Zonneveldstraat the walls re-clad. The existing concrete skeleton is placed fourth floor. This is 3.5 meters from the front line put
back so that the sunlight of Zonneveldstraat improves. On the side of the building Langebrug has three floors realized. Through
these interventions create a new city block with a large trapezoidal-shaped area in the heart. essential and central in the Faculty of
Law is the relatively large library. Storage and access to knowledge, curiosity, the desire to learn. The library is like the heart of the
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