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University Library of Sciences
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Rue de Saint-Amand, Orléans, France
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University Library of Sciences
Rue de Saint-Amand, Orléans, France
Type
YEAR
2005
SIZE
300,000 sqft - 500,000 sqft
The University Library of Sciences is set in the green landscape
of La Source campus, a typical 70s French university territory far away
from the city.
The library is built right along the tramway line, in front of a
station serving the campus. It develops a very strong relationship with
the landscape mainly composed of large trees and a lake. A large porch
made of a concrete colonade and a flat canopy of polycarbonate louvers
protects the entrance and frames of the ascending path toward the lake. A
small glass box with a main entrance set on the top of a series of
steps creates a space between outside an inside. The visitor is slowly
conditioned to come in the quiet space of the reading rooms.
Building a library is about containing knowledge. Books, newspapers,
images, numeric files gathered in one place constitutes chunks of
compact informations that need to be splitted in small unveilable pieces
in order to be shared before coming back in the original mass. This
permanent circular movement from archives stacked in big furniture
toward tables and readers hands, eyes, ears and brains is the
fundamental spatial archetype. The project aims to emphasise this
archetype by identifying several pieces of large wooden boxes containing
information themselves set in a larger translucent box creating a
protective envelope which offers large spaces for reading rooms. No
more, no less, but as radically as possible. Therefore, the library is
organised around a central atrium with reading rooms on the first and
second floors. A main boxe covered with a finish birch plywood contains
all the bookshelves. A central staircase climbs up to the researchers
reading space which opens onto the atrium by a long horizontal slit of
glass set at the top of this “grand meuble”. Four other wooden boxes set
around the central atrium with various shapes contain workgroup spaces
and a multimedia room. The redish brown rich leatherlike effect of the
Fincof is enhanced by the almost swiss severity of all the other spaces.
A general neutral grey tone creates a calm atmosphere which reveals the
variety of colours generated by the books and by people clothes.
Architecture is a support for life. The all thing is thought as a
“milieu” rather than a dramatic or monumental space. The architectural
idea is to create a kind of setback of the building presence so that
human activities can develop in the best and easiest way.
This conceptual organisation have being laid, the project focuses on
the creation of an economic but efficient skin which provides good
insulation and light control for the readers.The envelope is composed of
a double green polycarbonate skin with glass inserts creating framed
views of the natural vegetation of the campus. The peripheral concrete
structure of the building is wrapped in between the two polycarbonate
skins so that it almost disapears. For the reader, the facade becomes a
gazing filter between inside and outside.
of La Source campus, a typical 70s French university territory far away
from the city.
The library is built right along the tramway line, in front of a
station serving the campus. It develops a very strong relationship with
the landscape mainly composed of large trees and a lake. A large porch
made of a concrete colonade and a flat canopy of polycarbonate louvers
protects the entrance and frames of the ascending path toward the lake. A
small glass box with a main entrance set on the top of a series of
steps creates a space between outside an inside. The visitor is slowly
conditioned to come in the quiet space of the reading rooms.
Building a library is about containing knowledge. Books, newspapers,
images, numeric files gathered in one place constitutes chunks of
compact informations that need to be splitted in small unveilable pieces
in order to be shared before coming back in the original mass. This
permanent circular movement from archives stacked in big furniture
toward tables and readers hands, eyes, ears and brains is the
fundamental spatial archetype. The project aims to emphasise this
archetype by identifying several pieces of large wooden boxes containing
information themselves set in a larger translucent box creating a
protective envelope which offers large spaces for reading rooms. No
more, no less, but as radically as possible. Therefore, the library is
organised around a central atrium with reading rooms on the first and
second floors. A main boxe covered with a finish birch plywood contains
all the bookshelves. A central staircase climbs up to the researchers
reading space which opens onto the atrium by a long horizontal slit of
glass set at the top of this “grand meuble”. Four other wooden boxes set
around the central atrium with various shapes contain workgroup spaces
and a multimedia room. The redish brown rich leatherlike effect of the
Fincof is enhanced by the almost swiss severity of all the other spaces.
A general neutral grey tone creates a calm atmosphere which reveals the
variety of colours generated by the books and by people clothes.
Architecture is a support for life. The all thing is thought as a
“milieu” rather than a dramatic or monumental space. The architectural
idea is to create a kind of setback of the building presence so that
human activities can develop in the best and easiest way.
This conceptual organisation have being laid, the project focuses on
the creation of an economic but efficient skin which provides good
insulation and light control for the readers.The envelope is composed of
a double green polycarbonate skin with glass inserts creating framed
views of the natural vegetation of the campus. The peripheral concrete
structure of the building is wrapped in between the two polycarbonate
skins so that it almost disapears. For the reader, the facade becomes a
gazing filter between inside and outside.
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