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The Lanchester Library:Building a sustainable libraryPat NoonUniversity Librarian, Coventry University, England UK


ThumbnailOpened September 2000Total cost £19mArchitects – Short and AssociatesEnvironmental Engineers –Environmental Design PartnershipFloor area 10,000m2

The largest deep-plan naturally ventilated building in Europe


More than just the building

Sustainable building services/energySustainable infrastructureSustainable study spaces


The new Library visionto provide an excitingexciting and highly effective centre for information access, study and learning, which will affirm the University’s commitment to the student learning experienceto offer the highest quality information service delivery, in support of teaching, learning and researchto develop an exciting focal point for studentswhich will attract and delight users and in which staff and students will find it a pleasure to work.


The Briefintegrated learning resource centrefocal point for student activityprovide maximum flexibility for the future to meet changing expectationsenvironmentally sustainablebuilding of 10,000m2

four floorsPlus partial lower ground floor

rectangular footprint for flexibilitylearning resources needs paramount


Dialogues with architects #1

The Librarian’s view The Architects’ viewThe building must be simple

Long thin buildings are better for natural lighting

Sustainable buildings are very complex

…and rectangular

No more than four floors If it can’t be long and thin it has to be tall and thin

Libraries serve customers Libraries collect books


Dialogues with architects #2

The Librarian’s view The Architects’ view

No task lighting Task lighting is environmentally efficientSustainable buildings can’t work with manual windowsDeep plan buildings must have an atrium

Windows which staff can open for ventilation

We don’t want an atrium

The architect is always right

Library needs are paramount


Sustainability strategies

Flexible space designFlexible cabling infrastructureMaximum use of natural lightNatural ventilation


Flexible space design

No internal structural wallsStairs and toilets outside the library spaceFlexible furnitureFlexible cabling infrastructure


Staircase and Fire Exit

Main Staircase and Toilets

Library floor plate

50m

50mCompletely

flexible

space


The power and network grid

Power/data Risers

Surface cable channels

2m

2m


FLOOR PLATE

CABLE C

HANNEL

CABLE CHANNEL



High tensile steel cover


SupportsBookstack

weight


The Network Grid

bookshelves

bookshelves


The Network Grid

bookshelves

bookshelves


Sustainable lighting

Maximum use of natural light Lightwells to draw in daylightDynamic lighting system to react to natural light levelsLighting to allow flexible use of space


Book stacks

Study spaces

Lanchester Library Floor Plan

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Stairs

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The lightwells and natural light

Strong daylight – low artificial light


The lightwells and natural light

Strong daylight – low artificial light

Low daylight - strong artificial light


Diagonal lighting


Lighting Strategy

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Lighting strips


Sustainable ventilationNaturally ventilated

Almost no air conditioningTakes advantage of the lightwellsSophisticated Building Management SystemHuge savings on conventional running costsMaintained comfort levelsNight cooling


Ventilation - Air Inlet


Air Inlet Vents


Vents closed


Vents open


Ventilation Air Exhaust




Wind

Air Exhaust


Natural ventilation: elevation view


Natural ventilation: elevation view


Internal temperature during a hot spell

From Krausse, Cook and Lomas, Energy and Buildings 2007


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Naturally ventilated open-plan GP (ECON 19)

Naturally ventilated open-plan typical (ECON 19)

Air-conditioned standard GP (ECON 19)

Air-conditioned standard typical (ECON 19)

Lanchester Library

annual energy use [kWh/m2/h]

HeatingCoolingElectricity


Sustainable energy use


The Library provides a comfortable and pleasant study space

62 64 66 68 70 72 74 76 78 80

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1 Library Customer Survey, 1999

2. Simons & Maloney, Journal of Ventilation, 2003

“The Library has considerably higher levels of satisfaction for its environment than the university as a whole”

Staff Survey 2005


Sustainable study spaces












ReferencesBirgit Krausse, Malcolm Cook and Kevin Lomas, Environmental performance of a naturally ventilated city centre library, Energy and Buildings, 39 (2007) 792-801

Institute of Energy and Sustainable Development, De Montfort University, Leicester England, UKhttp://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk

Professor Alan Short – Professor of Sustainable Architecture University of CambridgeShort and Associates. www.shortandassociates.co.uk

Environmental Design Partnership, Leicester. England UK

Martin Simons and Barry Maloney, Comfort and acoustic monitoring…, Journal of Ventilation, 2 (1) 2003 1-13

[email protected]

http://www.iesd.dmu.ac.uk/

http://www.shortandassociates.co.uk/

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