By Foundation Library Rei Afonso Henriques
Yesterday I attended a speech by the architect Rafael Moneo Zamora within ZAXXI Architecture Conference taking place at this time. The first part of his speech showed the public flag Zamora your project devoted to interdisciplinary science at Columbia University in New York. The project, designed with Moneo Brock Studio with a budget of $ 200 million (134.8 million euros) was opened in 2010, has 14 floors, including 4,645 square feet of laboratories, a library for chemistry, biology and psychology , an auditorium, a cafe open to the public and street.
I intend to speak precisely of that library. Moneo showed pictures of her and explained how innovative point of this center that was designed relying on individual study spaces for students fully prepared for computer support for the work of Columbia students.
My point is that for me this detail on the idea of \u200b\u200bthe architect thinking when the Library is a symptom of where we go. In the Library Foundation architectural detail that most come out when the visits is the fact that the architect, Manuel de las Casas, designed the library next to the cabinet-shelf is to say, the shelves for the subsequent volumes are not but arise from the principle the idea of \u200b\u200bthe Library. Is a library designed to have a considerable volume of books and even has a spacious shelf for consultation on the idea of \u200b\u200bdesign is important.
However, today it is true that the student or researcher can not do without the accompanying computer to carry out their daily work, whether laptop, notebook, tablet , ebook, etc ... and this is what Moneo think when designing this library.
is also true that in this case the architect designed to a very specific audience, Columbia University and is therefore the space devoted to these students must have the latest technology and facilities for access to them.
To finish his speech to tell you that talked about the Castle-Museum Zamora Baltasar Lobo. He said what he thought would be the ideal project was to cover Castillo Wolf works in and devote the Home of the Giants (now the sculptures found here) as a center where the count with an auditorium, a temporary exhibition hall, a File and ... a library specializing in Lobo.
you imagine ... we could be 6 Special Libraries in Zamora.
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