From 7 to 1 Integration and Collaboration. The new Library for Humanities and Social Sciences at ULB Halle, Germany

Satellite Pre-Conference, IFLA Library Buildings and Equipment Section “Collaborative Strategies for Successful Library Design and Innovative Use”, August 10-11, 2016

Dr. Dorothea Sommer, Bavarian State Library

own hand at construction that we

are initiated into the torments

associated with persuading

materials and other humans

to cooperate with our designs

Buildings rarely make palpable the efforts that

their construction demands. They are coyly silent

about bankruptcies, the delays, the fear and the

dust that they impose…It is only when we try our

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State of Sachsen-Anhalt (Saxony-Anhalt)

City of Halle (Saale)

Martin-Luther Universität Halle-Wittenberg

Entrance to the main university building, the main auditorium in the background

Central library (1878-1880, Ludwig von Tiedemann)

Central library Foto: Christoph Seelbach

Central library

British Museum Library

Central library

Foto: Christoph Seelbach

British Museum Library

Bibliothèque nationale de France

Central library

Augsburg State and City Library (1892-1893, Fritz Steinhäußer and Martin Dülfer)

Old University Library Greifswald (1880-1882, Martin Gropius)

Old University Library Kiel (1881-1883, Heino Schmieden)

Opinion forming process

Locations of branch libraries (1997)

Transformation of the University‘s library system

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20

40

60

80

100

120

1995 2000 2005 2010 2015

27 (in 2002)

25 (in 2003) 19

13

Number of branch libraries

111

71

Locations of branch libraries (1997) Locations of branch libraries (2013)

37 u. 98

75 u. 25

20

18

University of Bielefeld (1969-1970, Herzog, Köpke, Siepmann et al.)

University of Konstanz (1966, Horst Linde)

Old University Library Kiel (1881-1883, Heino Schmieden)

Politics and Social Sciences

News Philologies (English and American studies, Romance and Slavic languages and literatures)

History and Arts

German language and literature, foreign literatures, South Asian literatures

Prehistoric archeology, Orient archeology, psychology, Japanese language and literature

Phonetics and Science of Speech/Logopedics

From 7 to 1

5,525 m2 surface area

9,820 m2 gros surface area

Building costs: 49 million euros

First estimates

1) Securing of finances and obtaining support from the State and the European Union

2) Location of the building place

3) Architectural competition

Collaboration

4) The design of the new library building and completion of the building

1) Securing of finances and obtaining support from the State and the European Union

New estimate of 52 million euros

75%

25%

Market place

University square

Francke Foundations

Former campus faculty of agriculture

Central library

Faculty of medicine

University square

500 m

2) Location of the building place

3) Planning process and architectural competition

University Library Management

Chamber of Architects

Online Petition City of Halle / Advisory board

Nature protection activists

University of Halle

Eßmann, Nieper & Partner

State / Building Department

VOF-Verfahren Geisteswissenschaften Martin-Luther-Universität Halle-Wittenberg – Baubereich 1

Dipl.-Ing. Architekten BDA Udo Nieper, Thomas Eßmann, Thomas Gärtner, Tom Nieper www.nieper-partner.de

4) The design of the new library building and completion of the building

Castel del Monte

5,525 m2 surface area

9,820 m2 gros surface area

Building costs: 49 million euros

Final figures

4,623 m2 surface area

7,343 m2 gros surface area

Building costs: 52 million euros

Bri: 29,718 m3

5,525 m2 surface area

9,820 m2 gros surface area

Building costs: 49 million euros

thereof: 14.36 million euros for the library building

Estimates

The new Steintor campus

Transformation of the Steintor area

Thank you for your attention!

Image Credits Slide 1: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz Slide 3: Map EU-Germany: grapic by NuclearVacuum, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:EU-Germany.svg Slide 4: Photograph by ContactNi, licence: Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.0 Germany, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halleuniplatz.JPG Slide 5: Photograph by Michael Hanke, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Halle_%28Saale%29_University_Library_Building_%28Feb-2006%29.jpg Slide 6: By courtesy of Christoph Seelbach Slide 8: Photograph of central library by courtesy of Christoph Seelbach Slide 9: BnF: photograph by Vincent Desjardins, licence: Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Generic, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:France,_Paris,_Biblioth%C3%A8que_nationale_de_France,_site_Richelieu,_salle_ovale.jpg; British Museum library: photograph by Diliff, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:British_Museum_Reading_Room_Panorama_Feb_2006.jpg Slide 10: Halle central library: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz; Kiel library: photograph by VollwertBIT, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 2.5 Generic, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Medizin-Pharmaziehist_Sammlung_Kiel.jpg; Greifswald library: photograph by Thomas Böhme, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Alte_Universit%C3%A4tsbibliothek.jpg; Augsburg library: By courtesy of Staats- und Stadtbibliothek Augsburg, photograph by Eckhart Matthäus Slide 11: Halle central library, see slide 5; GSZ library: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz Slide 16: Top left: photograph by N7legion, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Universit%C3%A4t_Bielefeld_Luftaufnahme.jpg; top right: photograph by Andy1982, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Uni_Bielefeld.jpg; bottom right: photograph by Tungsten, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Konstanz-Uni_Innenhof.jpg; bottom left: photography by Universitaetkonstanz, Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 4.0 International, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Luftaufnahme_Universit%C3%A4t_Konstanz.jpg Slides 17-19: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz Slide 21: OpenStreetMap and contributors, licence: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 2.0 Generic, https://www.openstreetmap.org/#map=15/51.4828/11.9539 Slide 23, 25-26: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz Slide 27: Photograph by GuidoR (Guido Radig), licence: Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported, https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Castel_del_Monte_in_Apulia.JPG Slide 29-30: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz Slide 31: By courtesy of Michael Kolkmann Slide 32: By courtesy of MZ, photograph by Silvio Kison Slide 33: By courtesy of University of Halle, photograph by Markus Scholz

Dr. Dorothea Sommer Email: sommer@bsb-muenchen.de Phone: +49 89 28638 2205 www.bsb-muenchen.de