Library Buildings around the World

faculty in the infield located and comprises one storey with two mezzanines. Daylight come around inside the library as well as
through a glass tube. This is all a direct visual contact is possible with the outside environment. Around this library are the four
components (three existing, new) associated logistics. This leads to a circuit of teaching, research and catering supplies around the
library. On the ground floor, first floor and basement are almost all public spaces. On the other layers are not longer part of the
public spaces. The lecture halls for lectures and seminars limits to the library and received by the top and side light opal-glass-brick
walls. Guiding principle in all architectural interventions has been the fundamental value of daylight. has created a flexible,
multipurpose building that can significantly contribute to the identity of the new Faculty of Law. By the grace of daylight.
(Ruijssenaars)
Bibliotheek en Kunstuitleen Stadshart Amstelveen, Amstelveen - The Netherlands 1999 – 2001
6.500 m², € 6.805.000
The public library of Amstelveen is a beautiful spot on the west side of the Square. As an important community institution is the
library the entire west side of the square. On the south part, the library itself with the culture and strip on the north side of the
housing and commercial buildings. Frontal, the library itself to the square. Transparent and open it gives insight into its content. But
there's more, she has more faces. First she gives shape to the entrance of the city center. Flanked by the bus station above the
parking garage and hotel and museum on the other hand the library is the central entrance to the large underground car park
beneath the square. The road from the Imperial Karelweg sinks slowly down and across the board goes into the large car park. The
library rises above ground and give space to the car. The floor of the library and curl up is the gateway to the city center. Much
daylight as possible to the assists and exit. In the row direction the library is divided into a northern part with most of the support
areas and a southern part which is the major lending space. Between the two sections in daylight penetrates through to the exit. The
central atrium also brings natural light into the heart of the library and organizes them lying areas. In technical terms, the climate
and natural central air discharge area to the backbone of the building. The side walls of the vast building to filtered light. The façade
on the square is open and clear. Transparency, readability, clarity. By the grace of daylight. (Ruijssenaars)
Theater Bibliotheek en Stadhuis Stadserf Schiedam, Schiedam - The Netherlands 1995 – 1997
22.500 m², € 18.604.989
The beginning of Schiedam in the 13th century was driven from the castle to house Riviere. The castle was looted and burned down.
Since 1574, it is for the Broersvest as a ruin as a silent witness to the beginning. The city government moved to the Grand Place in
1973 and came back to the city office tower in Stadserf. Around emptiness. The current Schiedam, after an eventful history has
become a city of 75,000 residents, threatened by a gaping beaten bare space in the heart to fall into a western and an eastern part.
The muted Broersvest as major traffic artery, which increased splitting effect. The city hall tower and the ancient ruins stood
helpless in that empty heart. The main challenge in the master plan for this area was to create a new city center for all of Schiedam
and therefore literally a bridge between the old core and the increasingly important field station on the east side. The connection on
the back Broersvest, land of Promise to the new purpose Stadserf was an important condition. Liduina the Basilica and the Great
Church conspire to make that leap. Lange Kerkstraat gets a natural extension of the Stadserf. The two church towers are a new
direction and spatial link east and west. The Stadserf the new central area of Schiedam, the new city room, the new heart. The walls
of this room are in close harmony formed by a residential retail and office complex on the south side, and a new administrative and
cultural center on the north side. The facades are the first wall of the city room and only secondarily the skin located behind
buildings. On both sides by arcades, the buildings part of its volume price as a transition to the square of the city room. In the
northern part constitutes arcade central access to a multitude of functions: the Library, the city archives, theater and Stadswinkel,
the central public department of the concentrated urban services. Public intensive functions such as restaurant, cafe and exhibition
space nest on the piano nobile in direct contact with the city room. The library carries it from the upper layers to the vibrancy of the
square. From the main entrance is a further route to the site library, archives, theater and urbain. Only the new multifunctional
council chamber adjoining new housing for the Board of Mayor and Aldermen is tucked away from the main entrance, and is
directly linked to the various city departments in the existing house municipal offices. For evening use for the purposes of Council
and committee has a separate entrance providing the Singelstraat. Under the complex is a parking garage for 92 cars and a bicycle
parking for 450 bicycles. Both facilities have a direct access to the central entrance hall. The various components are situated
somewhat independently and have their own specific function also got its own character and atmosphere. The public library is a
room flooded with daylight which has become the will to learn can take shape, quiet but always in touch with the world around you.
In the city archives is the reading room as a focal point between the well-equipped archiving facilities access to the past. The theater
has its box-in-box construction is not only a beautiful backdrop for the requested list stage, but offers its remaining space, the foyer,
also an additional theatrical provision for the unexpected. Even the Stadserf, the city room, can serve as the backdrop for the stage
as a place for everyday or a sudden event. Stadswinkel with the information and exhibition space is a wonderful space to just enter.
The parts together to try to shape the urban space, the square and surrounding streets. The history remains in the ruins and the
pavement of the square prominent. Also from the Stadserf the ruins visible through the arcade around. Cross-pollination between
culture, governance, history may have exciting implications, and thus could until recently desolate area will hopefully become a new
heart for all of Schiedam. (Ruijssenaars)
Stadhuis Apeldoorn, Apeldoorn – The Netherlands 1987 – 1992
32.600 m², € 23.100.000
Knowing that a central location of City Hall in the center of town is essential for casual accessible using the house of the city, this
design attempts to City Hall the most obvious place to take in the center, the north side of Market, on the empty spot along the
Deventerstraat. Not only is the Town Hall so a dialogue with the existing Town Hall, but above you acknowledge form to the
formless and desolate marketplace. The choice of the City Hall site should be considered in the long term, as a guiding mechanism
for the further future. Awareness of the significance that Hall may have as the home of the city where you receive your guests as a
community, where you come together for important events, is essential for the further development of Apeldoorn. The city is a living
organism. By daily habit, we often develop long-term anymore, yet the sense and meaning of an intervention for the future are
essential for the health of that organism. The identification of the naturalness and obviousness of the development of this city is a
prerequisite. Apeldoorn has grown tremendously in recent decades. Major new districts were built, the population rose to almost
150,000. As often happens, also remains in Apeldoorn, the development of the center slightly behind. The pressure on the heart
increases. Main Street is one of the busiest shopping streets in the Netherlands. Good infrastructural facilities such as the city gates,
with parking, have been constructed or are underway. Compaction of the center is inevitable. The core center was 150 years ago, still
is. It is amazing to see how the same core is also a city that can serve more than ten times as large. That is the power and also the
charm of Apeldoorn. The center is full of new initiatives. Closer, more intense and maintaining the start, while maintaining the
urban structure in the nature of Apeldoorn in such a significant degree. The City Hall is trying to market a natural and obvious way
that process and send. As the Hall outwardly conforms to the surrounding buildings in the building lines and heights, as it organizes
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