CASE STUDY FOR

UNIVERSITY
LIBRARY(MTU)
THET HTET NYEIN
(V.B.ARCH-4)
 UNIVERSITY LIBRARY
• more team oriented and less individualistic
• collaboration space for students
• Spaces where students can openly discuss and debate without having to
keep their voices down
• a need for individual, contemplative space
• A blend of formal and informal spaces can create environments where all
students can have their needs met.
• sound control is critical to the coexistence of lively, sometimes loud, areas
with these more quiet spaces.
• Short-term flexibility is also important. Movable furniture and temporary
wall partitions serve not only the long-term function of space but also
short-term needs for flexible work environments.
• Tutoring centers

• Writing centers

• Group study rooms

• Presentation rooms

• Seminar rooms and classrooms

• Distance learning rooms with access to video conferencing software

• Cafés and light dining venues

• Student and faculty lounges

• Art galleries
Tama Art University Library

• Location: Setagaya, Japan

• Architects: Toyo Ito
• Year: 2007
Concept
• The existing cafeteria was
the sole place in the
university shared by both
students and staff
members across all
disciplines,
• to provide an open
community space for the
whole faculty, the wide
open gallery on the
ground level serve as a
passage for people
crossing the campus,
even without the
intention of going to the
library.
• To let people freely enter and view the building, a structure of randomly
placed arches create the sensation as if the sloping floor and the front
garden’s scenery were continuing within the building.
• These characteristic arches are
made out of steel plates covered
with concrete.
• They are arranged along curved
lines which cross at several points.
• With these intersections, the arches
are kept extremely slender at the
bottom and still support the heavy
live loads of the floor above.
• The intersections of the rows of
arches help to articulate softly
separated zones within this one
space.
• Shelves and study desks of
various shapes, glass
partitions that function as
bulletin boards, etc., give
these zones a sense of both
individual character and
visual as well as spatial
continuity.
• The fact that the shelves in
the studying area are below
eye level, enables the library-
goers to see the crowns of
the surrounding trees every
which way they look. In this
way, the “actual” nature is
brought into the building and
contrasts the mimicked
nature inside.
• Climbing the stairs to the
second floor, one finds large
art books on low bookshelves
crossing under the arches.
• Between these shelves are
study desks of various sizes
• A large table with a state-of-art copy
machine allows users to do professional
editing work.
• The spatial diversity one experiences
when walking through the arches
different in span and height changes
seamlessly from a cloister-like space
filled with natural light, to the
impression of a tunnel that cannot be
penetrated visually.
University Library Cologne

• Location: Cologne, Germany

• Architects: ANDREAS SCHÜRING ARCHITECTS
• Year: 2019
• The transitions between the lounge area of ​ the entrance,
• the administrative counter,
• the communicative learning landscape in the center,
• the work counter along the inner courtyard and the study carrels
surrounded by books on three sides
 • attractive flagship of the
university with around 2500
students.
• The theme of a merging grid, as
found, for example, in Piet
Mondrians paintings, is translated
into the third dimension by
shelves and the ceiling.

The openly woven structure of the

grid ceiling made of high-quality
anodized aluminum, with a level
above the ceiling of a network of the
necessary but almost invisible house
technology, picks up on this design
theme and, together with the lighting,
generates a wide variety of
reflections.
Through the
interweaving of highly
transparent learning
cubes and light
acoustic curtains that
can be adjusted as
required, it functions as
a complex structured
one-room under an
apparently limitless, all-
connecting light ceiling.
In the beginning of the
semester open spaces
dominate, but during
the busy examination
phase the curtains offer
alternating retreats for
different learning
groups
Within the semi-
transparent glass study
carrels this game of
sightlines and outlooks,
reflections in the glass
and the gridded shelves
is continued in more
introverted areas.
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