Our ideal libraryCollège Pierre Loti 17300 Rochefort

We decided to imagine that this library is composed of buildings in form of giant books. It’s a strong and visible architectural form.

We made virtual models of the different rooms of our ideal library with Sweet home 3D.

Model of our library

The buildings of the library are just like a desk covered with books in disorder, showing intellectual activity in progress. --> We have chosen to make this model only in recycled material The raw cardboard figuring the concrete boxes.

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-->The windows of the buildings reserved for the preservation of books are oriented to the North. -->The scale of the model is at 1 / 200. -->The circulation between buildings is essentially underground.

The four big books (A,B,C,D) are intended to particular functions (catering, reception…).

The ten little books are storage places and correspond to the Dewey’s decimal classification.

Other view of our projectThe openings are in tinted and anti-uv glass. On the openings, there are stars like on the european flag . In the Dewey storage structures, the organisation is horizontal and vertical even if when seen from the outside, these structures seem to be leaning .

A- BuildingLevels Rooms

+4 To restore books

+3 Clay tabletCollections

+2 Codex

+1 Incunabulum

0 Hall

-1 Safety room

-2 Reception and classificationroom

-3 Custommer parking

-4 Staff parking

In building A you can find the reception desk , the book museum, the underground parking lot, and the delivery area.

These buildings are directed to the North . Buildings B,C,D are directed to the West-East. In these buildings there are the exhibition room, the Central Administration and the meeting room.

In the basement, there is the boiler room, the delivery area and the recycling room.

A- Building

Solar panel

HallThe Hall is divided into two parts.

This room to make research es.

The second room is equiped with armchairs.

Information desks Computers available

B- BuildingLevels Rooms+3 Meeting & relaxation

rooms+2 Central

administration+1 Exhibition room

0 Bookshop & other services

-3 Food delivery

-2 Boiler room

-1 Reception & classificationRoom

-3 Custommer parking

-4 Staff parking

Exhibition room

Levels Rooms

+7 Lecture rooms

+6 Offices & work rooms

+5 Rooms & studios

+4 Flats

C- Building

In building C, there are the bedrooms, the offices, the meeting rooms, and the conference rooms. These buildings are made for students, trainees... It is directed to the West-East.

Working roomIt is equiped with computers to do researchs and with seats to settle and read comfortably.

information desks Computers available

Comfortable armchairs

D- Building

Levels Rooms

+8 Multimedia & computers

Margaux Nest+9 Multimedia & computers

+10 Cinema

+11 Gourmet and fast-food restaurant

The building D is directed to the north . In the other part, there are the multimedia room , the cinema and the computer room and on the top there is the cafeteria where we can see all the library .

Multimedia & computers

Cinema

Films are projected.

One screen wide enough so that everybody can see the films.

A part of this building is dedicated to Margaux Nest (this is a reading cocoon ). These cocoons are like lifts getting up until twelve meters.

Margaux Nest

The ten storage Towers.

The ten storage towers aren’t directly open to the sun in order not to damage the books. The openings are directed to the North. They are divided in ten floors, the ten floors are divided in ten rooms and in each room there are ten pieces of furniture with ten shelves and so on.

Lift

Storage rooms

Corridors

Storage buildings

2 m 1 cm

The storage of the books are done in 10 structures leaned in the shape of lying books, each being in reference to the 10 divisions of the Dewey’s classification. (000 general, philosophy 100, 200 religions, Science 300, 400 languages ...)

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