© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

This building houses the required library facilities for the Economics Faculty, which occupies a neighbouring building. The required facilities of a 234 seat library and a 60 seat newspaper and magazine library, with a total capacity of 175,000 volumes in open as well as in restricted access, are complemented with; a 250 seat study hall, a research hall, a repro-room, data bases and a meeting room. The layout of the first floor revolves around the study hall. In parallel are located staff working areas, depositories and newspaper and magazine library areas. These are juxtapositioned, on different levels, to the main hall and tiers with the object of adjusting the layout to the boundaries of the site. A sequence of gliding spaces is formed in this way, supported by longitudinal compartmentation. A great deal of the configuration by volume is due to the relationship between the floor, the section of the building and the way in which the complex has been placed on the site. This is shown by the internal layout and the establishment of a clear distinction between the principal space of the reading hall and the surrounding spaces. Thus, the volume of the hall emerges above those of the depository and the access ways, making possible the appearance of the clerestory facing North. The form of the library is notably horizontal, as the greater part of the roof is all in the same pitch, with a slight inflexion in the gable, which has a greater height at the reading hall. The roof, which is covered in sheet zinc, has a row of trunk-conical skylights as a means of lighting the interior.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.

© Jacinto J. Esteban Benito . Pubblicata il 13 Luglio 2010.