biblioteca da Universidade do Minho - pólo de Azurém
Minho University's Library - Azurém's campus
Bibliothèque de l’Université du Minho - campus de Azurém
- program
pretension to the library to have a urban character serving not only the
university campus but also the city
- the campus
stretches out through a valley, having construction on the North hill and a
garden on the South hill – connected to the castle’s gardens (being able to
choose to implant the building wherever I wanted, I opted to close the
construction area by North and East, taking advantage of a plan already
approved for that zone of the campus)
- the building
proposes to create a retreated square; an exterior living place to the new
users of this campus zone, in harmony with the garden that occupies the other
side of the valley; the interior composes by a peripheral private strip and a
public zone on the centre, living from that various uses agglutinator courtyard
- there are
three moments in the building’s fruition: the courtyard, the entrance and the
reading room; from these three it’s possible to accede to all building’s spaces
- in the lower
level an L composes spaces with different scales – the small scale rests hidden
in a wood wall (in L – private) and a big open-space arises turned to the
courtyard, prolonging the inner uses to the exterior
- in the upper
level a big open-space arises with three boxes (audiovisual rooms and entrance
stairs – while the audiovisuals are dark spaces, the entrance stairs arise in a
light well)
- in the North
top the building brakes the terrain with the passives deposit distributed by
both levels on a double height space
- roofing
lowers on circulation paths in the reading room to allow light entrance through
translucid glass and to mark heights difference between circulation and living;
light comes from above
- in the exterior facades an horizontal rip warrants the surrounding landscape dominium, while the interior orients the sights to the inner courtyard
- in the exterior facades an horizontal rip warrants the surrounding landscape dominium, while the interior orients the sights to the inner courtyard
