This presentation includes case study on various libraries across the globe. It describe the design in an elaborative manner, along with pictorial representations

1. CASE STUDIES
LIBRARY DESIGN

2. Billie Jean King Main Library
• The state-of-the-art, structural timber building features distinct and identifiable
interior spaces that maximize square footage and enhance user accessibility and staff
efficiency.
• To lure the community inside, the library features a variety of amenity spaces, such
as a family learning centre, children’s reading room, veterans’ resource centre, and
multipurpose rooms with their own separate entrances; the building also houses
makerspaces with capabilities for film editing, 3-D printing, and robotics.
• There is a dramatic two-story light well that opens to the sky.
• Computers, quiet reading areas, a dedicated teen zone, and makerspaces are available
for use on the second floor, as well as lounge seating along the perimeter’s full height
glazing that offers occupants unobstructed views of the adjoining Lincoln Park and
surrounding neighbourhood.

4. Tonami Public Library
• The concept of an “open-plan library under a big roof” facing the main street that
runs through the city.
• The building is open to the street on the west side so that people can see the
interior from under the eave, which is set low and parallel to the street.
• The interior is a continuous space that rises from the inverting roll of the big roof.
The pitch of the ceiling is steep on the north side, where people come over to
interact with each other, and that stimulates vitality.
• From upstairs, visitors will be able to look down on the floor below, covered with
enlarged pictures of tulips and mosaic-like red carpet. Learning is always a pleasure.

5. Jiashan Museum & Library
• Based on site conditions, the architects took the open void at the middle as the core,
and combined three architectural volumes around it to enclose a square for the
crowd, which is also an outdoor extension of the foyers of the library and museum.
• The square provides resting space for citizens, while also connecting the museum and
library. Moreover, it serves diversified public activities such as outdoor exhibition,
pop-up book market, etc., fully embodying the functions and image of an urban
"knowledge hall and cultural living room".
• The whole architecture is like a natural jade that reveals brilliance after being cut
open. It's also like a city that collects culture and treasure, which echoes the design
theme "Book Repository and Treasure Kiln".

6. Pélissanne Media Library, Park and Public
Passage
• In the existing part, the classic spatial structure of interconnecting rooms is
preserved, establishing a simple internal organization of the media library
• The ground level opens widely onto the park and allows the reader to immerse
themselves in the landscape, while the upper floor offers a whole different
atmosphere. It propels the visitor into the crown of the majestic plane tree, in
which preservation guided the curved shape of the extension.

7. Thapar University Learning Laboratory
• A 130m x 130m podium structure runs between and acts as climate modifier.
• 10m in the air, with giant ramps at either end, it is a natural extension of the
pedestrian route. Below, everything is inhabited within a forked plan, like spreading
water; students congregate in the heat of the day around fountains, in the cool
shade of a tall concrete structure. The water cools the air and moves it to allow for
a reduction in temperature at the hottest times of the year.
• The three buildings have lofty 30m atrium spaces of quite different character - in
the library a zip-like tapering void, the science building a shaped city square, the
lecture theatres hovering over a built landscape; all three are crossed by dramatic
staircases; light spills from tree-filled roofs to the ground below and into the busy
under-podium world.
• It is founded on strong sustainability and environmental concerns in a monsoon
climate; it is built simply, using local labor and materials; the provision of cooling
and shade limit solar gain, the podium with pools makes a local microclimate;
Nature runs through it, from the existing trees retained, to the new landscape
planted on the roofs through which light is filtered.

9. LILAVATI LALBHAI LIBRARY
• Neutrally oriented at a central location with separate and equal entrances facing all
cardinal directions, access to the building – and identification with it – is collective
across the campus.
• Located at -4 meters and -8 meters below ground level, the book stacks, carrels, and
study spaces benefit from both plentiful and filtered natural lighting that pours in
through the louvered facade as well as the natural cooling effect provided by the
surrounding earth. In this way, the building serves as a hands-on laboratory for
students to experiment with the principles of passive ventilation, lighting, and
traditional cooling systems in South Asia.

11. YOGANANDA LIBRARY
• Conceptually, this four-floor structure is an intense interconnected volume of voids
and solids, connecting the entire building as a large functional plate.
• The upper two floors are made deeper as the contours recede and the front remains
aligned. This allows a large central courtyard that pours uniform indirect light into
all the parts of the built floors.
• The courtyards connect playfully in voids and volumes as they broaden up to the
terrace to become a natural container of light. This unrestricted light but controlled
temperature and views bring the required climatic control within the building.
• The terrace is a lush green extension of the central courtyard. One could bring books
away from the confines of a traditional library stack and read on the refreshing
grass, sun bathing on these winter foothills. The greens keep the latent
temperatures of the structure in check to add to comfort within.
• The inner face of concrete bears the load of the entire shelving system of the library
and it's books. The concrete wall is supported by seemingly intersecting concrete
columns; an interpretation of the most fundamental element of biotechnology and
reflection of the university's logo. The clean facade of concrete and recessed glass
brings out the fundamental function of the building.

12. GANDHI MEMORIAL MUSEUM (SABARMATI ASHRAM)
• Architects: Charles Correa
• Typology : Cultural Architecture / Museum, Residence
• Location: Sabarmati Ashram, a suburb of Ahmedabad, India
• Project year: 1963
• Materials: Wooden doors, Stone Floors, Ceramic tile roofs, and brick columns
• Modular units 6 meters x 6 meters of reinforced cement concrete connecting spaces, both open and covered, allowing
for eventual expansion were used.
• There are five interior rooms containing collections of letters, office space, meeting space, books, photos, and paintings
separately. All rooms are enclosed by brick walls and wooden louver screens and of 6m square module.
• Correa’s subtle changes in the enclosure allow for variety in the module’s lighting, temperature, and visual permeability.
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The museum uses a simple but delicately detailed post and beam structure. Load bearing brick columns support
concrete channels, which also support the wooden roof. The foundation is made of concrete and is raised about a foot
from the ground.
• In the Smarak Sangrahalaya, the modular pavilion unit was designed to facilitate a future extension and to emphasize
the idea of a single component making a whole.
• Correa placed five distinctly programmed interior spaces within the asymmetrical grid plan.

13. VAASTU: The arrangement is done according to the principles of Vaastu. Square grid with
courtyard and placements of rooms in the directions where it brings out the best of its positive
energies are such examples.
•Spaces for books in North East as the light reaches in this direction at around 3 am- 6 am that is
the time suited for meditation, yoga, and concentration and hence is said to bring out positive
energy.
•Toilets and Open gallery in North West and West direction to incorporate wind and water flow
with louvered windows.
•The main water body in the East direction as the Sabarmati River flows east to Southeast and to
purify the water by pure sunlight.
•Office spaces in the South direction to provide excellent ventilation of south monsoon.
RAINWATER HARVESTING SYSTEM: Catchment area created atop every brick column with
RCC channels to collect rainwater from sloping roofs. It is one of the most inexpensive methods
known.

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