马萨里克大学艺术系图书馆_布尔诺_捷克.pdfVIP

FACULTY OF ARTS LIBRARY, MASARYK UNIVERSITY, BRNO, CZECH REPUBLIC, 2001 ARCHITECT: Kuba Pilar architects 19 while allowing the people inside the building to have 20 visual contact with the outside world. The abstract integrated area of the structured outer casing is accentuated by the conspicuous body of the entrance; the entrance tube and the vertical tower of the lift shaft are underlined by a black-tinted glass facing. The whole monolithic structure of the fire staircase at the south facade is encased in perpendicular steel rods. The dominant spacial feature of the interior is a monolithic staircase in a circular cut-out running through all the levels of the building. The space of the staircase hall is illuminated by a skylight in the ceiling of the top storey. The staircase hall links the large universal reading-rooms. The interior arrangement of the reading-rooms is very flexible: there are plentiful study places and free access to books on all the overground floors, and Internet connection is available at each study place. 400 The Library can serve 400 students at a time and its 27.5 overall capacity is 275 thousand book volumes. In the basement there are compact book stacks and librarians offices. A monolithic ferroconcrete skeleton resting on piles forms the frame of the building; it has been designed in order to allow changes to the inside arrangement. The concrete construction is visible from outside as well as