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Editor's Notes
Cecilia Kugelberg senior librarian, responsible for humanities, research librarian for philosophy, aesthetics and art. 1999 to SH, came involved in the group planning for the new library building at once. Christer Malmström …
Södertörn University, south of Stockholm, was founded in 1996
The building material were given careful consideration and consists mainly of natural unpainted materials to shine through. Glass, limestone … The more permanent parts, the building’s structure and related parts are build here on place - the white concrete casted on site, the glass façade. ( The floors, for example, are of solid ash, a durable and quiet surface)
The construction has so to say permanent areas and more flexible sections. The replacable parts are painted in strong colours. The futher you gets into the building the more colours and flexibility, reflecting the architect’s visions to shape an equal relation between the building and the library activity. “The end result is not a finished product but rather a visual form of a very inspirational work process”, says the architect Christer Malmström.
What belongs to the building itself and what comes with the library activity? How to make these two “magnitudes” exist in an equal relation maintaining their identity? what’s the territory of the architect and what’s the territory of the library? in it’s construction the building, so to say, have permanent areas and more flexible sections.
The futher you come into the building the more it is flexible. The different sections are manufactured elsewhere, fitted specially for this building and their functions. You have not only the bookshelves and study places, but all the inner walls, glass and painted panels - these are all replaceable and painted in strong colors. The furniture are also in different bright /vivid colors Ex: Pillars i straight lines and in no straight lines in the other direction
Student working places/study places. High bar stols. Librarians said no it must be convenient and comfortable to sit for hours Balustrade smart idea many more window seats. No long high tables – no high barstols The architects wanted high bar stols and tables. It looked nice but we said No, because it’s not so comfortable to be seated for a long time on a bar stol. You changed your mind. We are happy that you did. Theses places are very popular. There are some high bar tables but there the students do not stay working for hours.
Storeroom a place to put things like book-support, a ladder, an extra chair for example. Large-size doors to facilitate the delivery of big paper pallets
A specialist in where and how to place paintings putting up Matresse by Martin Gustavsson A picture to show it in its context. Oil on canvas- on the wall of concrete and opposite the spray-painted green panel.
The artist looking at her papier maché sculpture. A little mountain with a telefon cabin/box on the top somewhere nowhere - firing the imagination
Unconventional perhaps but anyway a nice placing for this art work in plasic. It is just outside the library but in the library building next to the staircase down to the 4 th floor
Here another large/big painting Acrylic on canvas on the concret wall. You have to go very close to it. I like that you come so close to these big paintings. I feel privileged in some way and trusted. That’s important in in a district where we have many students coming from families not used to studies and also many immigrants.
Drinking water fountain. One of the architects designed this modernized drinking water fountain and now we have two of them, one on each floor of the libray It’s my baby ? You easily get a dry throat with modern heating and ventilation and it’s healthy to drink water. You often se students with water bottles. But it is almost impossible to fill them in the / washbasin in the toilet, lavatory. In the 20 an 30 they often had a drink water fountain in public buildings. I wanted to reclaim the drink water fountain. But also modernize it, (renew adapt, adjust it to today life )/which means you should not only be able to drink from it but also to fill a bottle. On some occasions it disappeared from the drawing plan. But I kept an eye on it and picked it up again. One of the architects designed this modernized fountain and now we have two of them, one on each floor of the libray
The artist himself has made this little shelf to so we could put his sculpture on - on this place outside the house.
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