Table Of ContentEco-Library Design
John A. Flannery · Karen M. Smith
Eco-Library Design
John A. Flannery • Karen M. Smith
Eco-Library Design
John A. Flannery Karen M. Smith
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ECO - LIBRARY DESIGN
Introduction
1
New Build
3 Amsterdam Public Library, Amsterdam, 65 Oak Park Public Library, Oak Park, USA
Netherlands
17 Ballard Library and Neighborhood Service Centre, 73 The Open-Air-Library, Salbke, Germany
Seattle, USA
29 Centro Culturale Elsa Morante, Rome, Italy 83 Phoenix Central Library, Phoenix, USA
37 Gando School and Library, Gando, Burkina Faso 95 Traverwood Branch Library, Ann Arbor, USA
45 King Abdullah University of Science and 109 University of Aberdeen New Library, Aberdeen,
Technology, Thuwal, Saudi Arabia UK
55 Liyuan Library, Huairou, China 119 University of Arizona Poetry Center, Tucson,
USA
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Adaptive Re-Use Hybrid Construction
170 The Margarido House, Oakland, USA
129 City of Sydney Library Customs House, 163 Albertslund City Library, Albertslund Kommune,
Sydney, Australia Denmark
137 Cybertheque, McGill University, Montreal, 171 Arkansas Studies Institute, Little Rock, USA
Canada
145 Old Market Library, Bangkok, Thailand 183 Centennial Library Winnipeg, Winnipeg,
Canada
153 Willingboro Public Library, Willingboro, USA 187 Central Library of Law University of Hamburg,
Hamburg, Germany
201 Library on Cork Street, Winchester, USA
211 UC Berkeley School of Law, Berkeley, USA
223 Photo Credits
225 Index
Introduction
“A university is just a group of buildings gathered around a library.”
Shelby Foote
‘‘The only thing that you absolutely have to know, architecture is not a new phenomenon.
is the location of the library’’ Albert Einstein The worldwide perspective of this publication
Pick your own favourite quotations about libraries, reveals a diverse definition of the modern eco-
there are many to choose from. In a world where library. In the developing world, a simple room in
the cost of a university education is now so which to read, carefully constructed from locally
daunting that it precludes many, I was interested salvaged materials can change the lives of a
to read the following: ‘‘I spent three days a week poverty stricken population. This is demonstrated
for ten years educating myself in the public library, in both the flood prone Old Market Library of
and it’s better than college. People should educate Bangkok and the dust dry Gando School Library.
themselves - you can get a complete education In the developed world, the determination of
for no money. At the end of ten years I had read municipal authorities to develop main and branch
every book in the library and I’d written a thousand libraries as a public demonstration of considered
stories.’’ Ray Bradbury (1920 - 2012). sustainable design is gaining momentum.
My own particular granite columned haven was From the University of Aberdeen to McGill
the Leeds Central Library in the industrial north University’s Cybertheque, Montreal, technologically
of England. Built between 1878 and 1884 to a advanced libraries are now built as working
design by architect George Corson, this imposing models of best practice, providing an enhanced
example of Victorian architecture is now a grade user experience by adapting to the changes in the
2 listed building. Aware of the economies of scale way information is now stored and disseminated.
that the building would provide, Leeds City Council The featured projects consistently demonstrate
determined a hybrid model for the Central Library a determination to reduce energy and water
building. It would include not only a free public consumption whilst eliminating the wasteful use
lending library, a reading room, and a reference of material resources. When this can be done
library, but also municipal offices where the people with limited finance and the help of the local
of Leeds would pay their gas, water and rates bills. population, as in the former East German city of
The first and second floors housed the Borough Magdeburg, a rewarding renaissance in social and
Engineers and the City Sanitary departments. The cultural life can often be an additional benefit.
city’s art gallery was opened in the same building The architects and engineers who have contributed
in 1888. Constructed from locally quarried to this book faced the challenge of new build,
Yorkshire stone in the 19th century, and surviving adaptive re-use, or a combination of the two with
almost 130 years of continuous and adaptive re- the common goal of delivering the best possible
use to date, the Leeds Central Library is manifest Eco Library Design to the communities they serve.
proof in my home town that sustainable library John A. Flannery
1 Introduction | Eco-Library Design | Fig. 1 | University of Aberdeen New Library
