Thursday 13 August 2009

Nottingham Jubilee Library




This library is located on the Nottingham University campus - jubilee branch - in the city of Nottingham - UK. This library was designed on a small island in the middle of artificial lake on the center of the campus. the name of this library is Mr. and Miss Tkflo who built this library and give it as gift to the University .

This library was designed by the architect / Michael Hopkins in 2004. The designer has taken the idea of creating the library from the top of cone shape. Also, he located the elevator in the heart of the library, the aspect of the library used wrapped stairs around the perimeter of the building from four sides and it pass in every level of the library until it reaches to the end of this stairs which is the (fourth floor), but the stairs doesn't have thresholds.
The main reason for choosing this library because the issue is that the civil engineer for this building they did not take into their account the weight of books which are filling the shelves of books yet?? But finally the solve it smartly by add more supporter elements underneath the island's which is carrying the library .. That was Fatal Error!!

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