The fundamental idea of the conceptual design of a campus, based on the “Walk Along Park” concept, is to show room location and traffic flow for the Library and Learning Centre (LLC), as laid out in the master plan, and to turn the interior of the buildings three dimensional using the convolution principle.
The hardscaping aspect of the master plan deals with the interior of the LLC and maps out the different floors and levels. Open and half-open sheltered areas are placed around a central atrium as canyon-like corridors on different levels. These take on the rythmic pattern of the external landscape, which is formed by the wide rooms and narrow thoroughfares.
Functional Plan
The most important aspect of the functional plan is the sepration of the buildings in both the upper areas of the library and student management offices. This plan will not only be flat and two dimensional, but also, as described above, reproduced on a three dimensional scale, which will show the space around the “open” areas in the central atrium, the canyon-like corridors and the trench-like joint gaps.
In the larger part of the library structure, the different levels of the Service Area, Learning Centre and Economics Lirbrary floors mix together. In the smaller, central structure of the management building, different units of Student Services (central services) and library management are in the main disconnected.
While the interior edges of the site are linked together in flowing free-form and thus create an interconnected structure, the exterior edges of the building cut sharply and crisply across and their alignment contrasts with the site edges specified on the master plan and with the alignment of the adjoining building.
Interior Thoroughfares
It is of decisive importance that the connecting room described above (atrium, canyon, joints) is navigable by visitors and users and provides the main thoroughfare throughout the building. Visitors are lead through the library or the student management offices via ramps and stairways in spiral form from the ground floor up. At various levels on the way they pass along platforms, terrace levels and galleries which take them to the open and half-open, central areas such as the auditorium, the entrance area with access to the library and the central services facilities, as well as part of the independent study area.
The main entrance of the LLC leads visitors direct to the cenral auditorium, which extends to a large atrium with skylights. Various walkways branch off from the auditorium into the different areas.
A system of ramps leads from the auditorium to the library entrance and the central services on the first floor as well as the security and locker area on the mezzanine below.
To and from the atrium leads a central system of stairs which starts from the respective entrance levels of the main floors within both building structures. These run alongside the sloping connecting room. Short walkways in the form of steps and bridges link both the areas with each other and optimise the necessarily different walkways and thoroughfares and comply with the stipulated minimum distance from an emergency exit.
Façade
The outer appearance of the LLC is made up of two elements of contrasting colours: shell and shadow. The navigability of the building is made easier by giving different colours to the two main areas. The material suggested for these separate façades is 12mm thick concrete and fibreboard. These are produced in different colours, such as light grey/silver for the lighter building and charcoal for the darker. Both colours are separated from one another by a glass join.
Design Zaha Hadid with Patrik Schumacher
Project Architect Cornelius Schlotthauer
Project Team Marc‐Philipp Nieberg, Kristoph Nowak, Enrico Kleinke, Stefan Rinnebach, Niels Kespohl, Jan Hübener, Romy Heiland, Richard Baumgartner
Consultants:
Structural Engineers: Arup Berlin
M&E Engineers: Arup Berlin
Façade Engineers: Arup Berlin Cost Consultant: ATP Wien
Fire protection: HHP West, Bielefeld
Render Studio: Vectorvision, Leipzig
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