Library Buildings around the World

The victory in the competition coming cultural focal point on the coast of Helgeland went to L2 Architects.
Alstahaug invited five architects to tevle in the limited planning and design competition for cultural and bathhouse in Sandnessjøen.
The house will loom in the area as a building with a library, gallery, hall, cinema, café and swimming complex with several pools, so
it is important that the solution contains goals.
The five layers were Nils Tveit Architects / Architecture Griff, Asplan Viak, L2 Architects, Heggelund & Koxvold and Helen & Hard
/ NUNO Architecture.
L2 Architects drew the longest straw and was unanimously named the winner with his proposal, "Sky." It shows a compact project
with small footprint, a building of four storeys that are adapted quarter situation and provide a good starting point for area
efficiency and energy saving.
Civic body is laid on the street level of the library clearly visible, with stairwell integrated into the facade and lobby as a unifying
meeting with seating, dining and direct contact with the floor. The jury is "very positive" to the solution of the main entrance.
Great hall and cinema also has optimal conditions, says the jury, but the gallery is unfortunate located and bathing facility has
received too little space.
Much glass
The plant consists of three main parts in the longitudinal direction. Each part can be further developed for them. The concept is
flexible, turn the jury fixed.
Meanwhile, the house has a horizontal layering with a contemporary style that is "conducive to creating a distinctive building." The
extensive use of concrete, glass and metal sturgeon during the term, but the jury will reduce the use of glass in the facade and reveal
a more energy and environmentally friendly buildings.
All fourteen architects with L2 Architects contributed in various ways: Ivar Lunde, Jon Inge Bruland, Jon Flatebø, Helge Ness,
Martin Christensen, Sunniva Simonsen, Meriadeg Jan, Katrin Häusler, Thomas Løvdal, Michael Ross, Line Woxen, Sigrun Berg,
Tove Linn Tjersland and Heiki Fretheim. Adviser on the landscape was the landscape architect Atsite MDL Truelsen Anne Schultz.
Two teams got split second, Heggelund & Koxvold with "1,2-Northern Lights" and Architects Nils Tveit / Griff Architecture with
"Sabakuhus."
The jury had six members. Among these was the architect stone hammers and architect Astrid Reikvam, which also was the jury
secretary, both elected from the municipality. (http://www.arkitektnytt.no)
Rommen School and Cultural Center, Oslo-Rommen – Norway 2010
Landscape Architect: Østengen & Bergo AS
The former school building was too small, and had to be replaced. The new building includes a large multipurpose sports hall, its
own performance hall and an open library. Offices for the community culture school and part of the local council is also located
here. The school houses 770 pupils from 1st to 10th grade. The facilities both indoor and outdoor will serve the whole community.
The school is located to an almost flat site, slightly rising to the north, in a valley surrounded by hills. East of the site there are
ravines with grassy slopes and valuable vegetation belts. Two power lines are crossing the area. With the largest line to the west, the
project and the landscape design therefore pays more attention to the east. The vegetation belts in the east are reinforced and
continue into the campus. Closer to the building, they get more cultured, and “finger-merged” with the building wings.
The concept is based on:
• Finger-merge east west
between vegetation belts and building wings in the east
between vegetation belts and parking lots in the west
• A belt of activity north south
activities and playground for all ages
Several features is incorporated on the site:
“The square “ is to the south, gathers many people on special occasions and will be a nice and sunny meeting place with a variety of
informal seating options.
Zones for activities are located along the “activity belt” and zones for more quiet playing closer to the building. There are a variety
of seating options. Access, drop off and parking to the site is in the north and west. Drop off is mainly for transport of children in the
1-4th grades, SFO and “family learning “. The total parking capacity is 88 of which 4 HC.
Existing walkways to the school are maintained, access from south and southeast improved. A walkway from the south turns into the
main axis of the plan. East of these axis are areas for residence and activities, and in the west are traffic areas and parking lots.
Existing footpaths are steep, and do not satisfy the requirements of universal design / accessibility. A new walkway is with a gradient
of 1:20 is therefore built from the sports grounds in the lowest parts of the valley and up to the school. This path can also be used by
the youngest school-children who do not want to pass the older kids on the way to their classroom. There are two areas for bicycle
parking, a total of 224 bicycles.
Outdoor classroom: The elevated wooden decks in the quiet zones between the wings of the building, can be used as outdoor
classrooms. The children can sit, lie down or eat lunch. The digital outdoor computer ground provides exciting opportunities for
teaching and learning outdoors. Letters and characters are painted on the school grounds for outdoor learning. In the outer zones of
the site is a green zone of existing trees and newly planted trees and shrubs. The trees are named with small signs so that children
can learn the name and family of the common Norwegian forest species. (http://www.archdaily.com)
Kulturhus Longyearbyen, Svalbard (Spitsbergen) – Norway 2010
Construction of Longyearbyen culture was begun in spring 2009, and the building was officially opened by the Minister of Justice
Knut Storberget 2 December 2010.
The Cultural Centre is located in the center of Longyearbyen as extensions to existing buildings. The buildings are connected on
multiple floor levels in the culture house vestibule area so that culture may eventually rent space in the office building to expand its
functions, including the library.
Access to the public is from the walkway through the center, and access to equipment, etc.. is from the parking lot at the "rear" of
the building.
Architect Øyvind Lind PW Architects describe the building as an inclined prism is greater over the stage area and the lowest of the
vestibule area. The building functions in a simple and robust form. This means that the building marks a distance and settle down in
the face of the audience. Near the building is an old trestles as building shape playing against.
The roof and wall scene, the two inclined surfaces are covered with roofing felt. On stage wall is placed horizontal battens under the
roof covering so that it is shelving the snow settles on the winter and provide variety in building expressions. Side facades are clad in
Siberian larch mounted vertically, but the horizontal overlapping bands. Doors and glass fields are in lacquered aluminum.
The building's features include an auditorium for 244 people in the sliding amphitheater, cinema engine, control rooms, a recording
studio, space and artist features.
Sober materials
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