Key：Germany

项目概况:

Free University’s Philology Library designed by London-based architects Foster+Partners cost Euro 59.3 million; its four floors are contained within a striking curved translucent enclosure, and the distinctive cranial form of the new campus library has already earned it the nickname-“The Berlin Brain”. The original library was designed by Candilis Josic Woods Schiedhelm in 1973, and the façade was designed in collaboration with Jean Prouvé. The rusty appearance of these buildings led to the nickname of “die Rostlaube”-the “rust-bucket”. Housing the combined former collections of 11 separate libraries, the new library occupies a site created by uniting the existing libraries. Clad in aluminium and glazed panels the building is organized on a radial geometry. An inner fabric membrane of glass fibre filiters the daylight and creates an atmosphere of concentration, while scattered transparent openings allow momentary views of the sky and glimpses of sunlight. The bookstacks are located at the center of each floor, with reading desks arranged around the perimeter. The serpentine profile of the floors increases capacity for the reading desks and creates an edge pattern in which each floor swells or recedes with respect to the one above or below it, generating a sequence of generous, light-filled double-height spaces in which to work.