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 VENNESLA LIBRARY AND
CULTURAL CENTRE
Chunky wooden ribs bend around the walls and
ceiling of this library in Norway by Helen &
Hard Architects and integrate lighting,
bookshelves and seating.
The 27 ribs frame the outline of a double-height
hall, which spans the length of the Vennesla
Library and Cultural Centre and includes a
mezzanine.
Glue-laminated timber beams and columns
`provide the structure for each rib, while air
conditioning ducts are sandwiched behind the
lighting fixtures and plywood casing.
As the columns wrap around to meet the floor,
hollows lined with cushions provide sheltered
study spaces.
Existing buildings are located either side of
the library, but natural light floods in through
glazed facades that are exposed at the front
and shaded behind timber slats at the back.
Stairs lead down to a basement floor
containing offices, classrooms and a local
history collection.
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Vennesla Library and Culture house
The new library in Vennesla comprises a
library, a café, meeting places and
administrative areas, and links an existing
community house and learning centre together.
Supporting the idea of an inviting public
space, all main public functions have been
gathered into one generous space allowing
the structure combined with furniture and
multiple spatial interfaces to be visible in the
interior and from the exterior.
An integrated passage brings the city life into
and through the building. Furthermore, the
brief called for the new building to be open
and easily accessible from the main city
square, knitting together the existing urban
fabric.
This was achieved using a large glass
facade and urban loggia providing a
protected outdoor seating area.
Basement level plan
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“LocHal”
LIBRARY
Text description provided by the
architects. The LocHal, an old locomotive
hall dating from 1932, is located next to
the station of Tilburg and houses the
Bibliotheek Midden-Brabant, Kunstloc
Brabant, Brabant C and Seats2Meet*.
Everyone is welcome in the new living
room of Tilburg, a world-class space for
both young and old to read, learn and
study, meet and gather. It is a place for
testing, creating, exhibiting and
presenting the latest innovations.
History
Tilburg is not only known for its worsites
of the Dutch National Railways, but also
for its textile industry and the Efteling, the
nearby popular fairytale theme park. This
history is made tangible in Mecanoo’s
interior design. Characteristic historical
elements form an exciting combination
with new oak and steel additions, and a
warm colour palette of reds and oranges.
The interior is varied, playful and
innovative. There is a diversity of
atmospheres for meeting, collaboration,
and concentrated work.
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City café with reading and exhibition GameLab
space The GameLab is for gamers. The oval
The eye-catcher is the city café featuring space with blue perspex walls is located
a bar with red, brown and gold ceramic in the youth zone. The old circuit board -
tiles and a neon LocHal logo on top. It which you used to find in televisions –
can easily be spotted from passing trains. appears as a graphic element that marks
The old tracks are visible in the concrete the entrance. Inside, you are challenged
floor. They are used to move three large through games to think creatively, to
wheeled “train” tables. For example, a solve problems and to work together in
single table can become the extension of the central space or individually in one of
the bar; when placed together, the tables the four semi-circular niches.
form a stage or catwalk with the stairs as
a tribune. They can even be moved FutureLab
outside along the tracks to form a stage The FutureLab is for future thinkers.
for events on the square. Next to this city Here, start-ups, students or companies
café is the reading room with magazines, can give presentations and organize
and next to that is the Kunstloc exhibition workshops about manufacturing
space. It is right in the corner, clearly processes and innovative products. The
visible from the outside. The textile walls digital screen, spanning the entire width
designed by Inside Outside, inspired by of the wall, contrasts with a wall of
Tilburg as a textile city, create intimate playfully staggered end-grain wood.
spaces in this large hall. When these Through the play of shadow formed by
hanging textiles are drawn together, the the protruding and receding pieces of
space can accommodate large-scale wood, the wall appears as a lively work of
events. art.
Stair landscape
The stair landscape that Civic designed Children’s library with Efteling
The LocHal is not only a library, but also
for the monumental LocHal takes you to atmosphere
a laboratory where you are challenged,
the upper floors. Parts of the stairs are The Efteling theme park is the source
gain new knowledge and learn about new
made of oak. With the flexible wooden of inspiration for the children's library.
innovations. These specially designed
seating elements, everyone can design Bookcases take on the form of
labs can be found throughout the
their own space. For instance, you can colored pencils or rulers. You can
building.
'build' a meeting place or a quiet place to walk through the giant fairytale books,
work undisturbed. look for a book or play. The little ones
can read a book at tables shaped like
mobile phones, or listen to storytelling
Interior street
Crossing the building is an interior street lined with historic industrial columns on sessions while lying on an open book.
Even the sitting poufs have playful
which the old layers of paint are still visible. By fitting the columns with wooden
tables and lighting, they are given a new lease of life as places for reading and letters in the form of fairytale animals.
studying. The street is flanked by bookcases. There are also low mobile display
units where books are presented invitingly, as in a bookshop. In this book street,
books are also checked in and out. The bookcase wall on the office side has
transparent display cases for works of art and unique books. This wall also gives
staff the right balance between privacy and connection with the library.
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 ACADEMIC LIBRARY PUBLIC LIBRARIES NATIONAL LIBRARY DIGITAL LIBRARY

Collection and storage of literature for
education and research purpose Spaces:
reference rooms , Counters for issuing
special books , reading rooms Services :
inter library loans , photocopying ,
reading and printing from microforms ,
online literature search and data stored in
General types of library CD ROM Information is arranged in
ACADEMIC LIBRARY systematic ways Books are placed to be
accessed by all.
PUBLIC LIBRARY
Provides wide choice of general literature
and other information media Displays
books on open shelves No academic
collections May include music library ,
art lending library , mobile lending
services Services: browsing area ,
cafeteria , music listening facilities ,
recreational and meeting rooms Used by
children adolescents and adults
Collection of literature and historical
documentation produced in one country
or region Open for general public
A digital library is a library in which
collections are stored in digital formats
(as opposed to print, microform, or other
media) and accessible via computers.
The digital content may be stored locally,
or accessed remotely via computer
networks. A digital library is a type of
information retrieval system.

NATIONAL LIBRARY

DIGITAL LIBRARY

Standards & Workspaces

READING TABLE
SHELVES
CIRCULATION
LOADING
CLIMATE
WASHROOM
MEETING ROOM
COMPUTER ROOM
REFERENCE DESK
CAFETRIA

-Group using Levels Max. height

ADULTS 5.6 1.8 m

CHILDREN 4 1.2 m

Shelf aisles should not be more than 3 m long

Books should be carried in trolleys (92m x.99m x.5m) Circulation routes > 1.2 m wide
Clear space between shelves at least 1.3m1.4m Avoid crossing and overlapping of
routes
Area for reading per person > 2.5 m2
Area for individual work > 4 m2
Avoid direct sunlight near shelves as u.v
and heat rays destroy paper and binding
Room height should be greater than 3 m
Lighting should be appropriate to the use
to which the area is put Building design
should be based on climate and internal
environmental control should be based
on buildings

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2.Geography
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3.Food
4.Mix lab
5.Rotunda
6.Art
7.Cafeteria / food lab
8.Dining Area
9.Tamil-1
10.Music lab
11.Language Labs or convo rooms
12.Other languages-1

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5 6 8
7

Open 10
auditorium
/reading 9
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area

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 Concept:
CRYSTALLIZATION

Derivation:

I arrived at this concept when i decided to use

“Quasiperiodicity” to the form of a cut
diamond, to reinvent its base crystalized form

As humans we are a lot like crystals we go

through a lot and are refined into diamond
through constant study and experience
I wanted my building to capture that

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A. TYPES OF SPACES
Photo of the reference desk at Issaquah Public Library-Issaquah, WA
Reference desk at Issaquah Public Library, Issaquah, WA by Bohlin Cywinski Jackson
Photo Credit: James Frederick House

There are seven broad types of public library space:

Collection space (including public electronic workstation space)

User seating space
Staff work space
Meeting space
Special use space
Non-assignable space (including mechanical space)
Careful analysis of the following will allow designers to determine the space needs for the seven
general spaces listed above, which are common to public libraries:

Identification of the library's population of users

Estimation of the collections provided by the library and the space needed to accommodate
those provisions to meet the future needs of its users
Estimation of floor space needed to accommodate seating areas
Estimation of floor space needed by staff
Estimation of floor space needed for meeting rooms
Estimation of miscellaneous public- and staff-use space (special use space)
Estimation of space needed for entry halls, mechanical rooms, bathrooms, etc. (non-assignable
space).

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 LOCATION:
AMARAVATHI
Amaravati is the de facto capital city of the Indian state of Andhra Pradesh.[5]
The planned city is located on the southern banks of the Krishna river in
Guntur district, within the Andhra Pradesh Capital Region, being built on a 217
sq km riverfront designed to have 51% of green spaces and 10% of water
bodies.

The site does not have any contours or levels, the only complexity is the
abandoned agricultural land

The city has yet t to announce a site for its library hence the site i selected
was near the planned locations for colleges and schools

The city’s museum is also in near vicinity

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Amaravati is an Urban Notified Area and its urban development and planning

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activities are undertaken by the Amaravati Development Corporation
Limited[19] and Andhra Pradesh Capital Region Development Authority
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The State government has initiated the Singapore-based ICUL
Ascendas-Singbridge and Sembcorp Development consortium for the capital TUR
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city construction. The new capital city’s infrastructure will be developed in 7–8 AND
years in phases, at an estimated cost of ₹33,000 crore. ₹7,500 crore from
Hudco, $500 million from the World Bank and ₹2,500 crore from the Indian
Government, of which ₹1,500 crore has been granted.

Nine themed cities consisting of Finance, Justice, Health, Sports, Media, and
Electronics; including Government buildings designed by Norman Foster,
Hafeez Contractor, Reliance Group, and NRDC-India will be built within the
city. Pi Data Centre, 4th largest of its kind in Asia, with an investment of ₹600
crore (US$83 million) and Pi Care Services, a healthcare BPO were
inaugurated at Mangalagiri IT park. HCL Technologies, an IT firm would set up
one of its centres in Amaravati.

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The final works are yet to be done and the city is still under development. 130
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Hence the data available are only vague.

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Total acres: 5 acres

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