Library University of Bio Bio / RMR Projects

The library, the result of a competition post-flood (2006), is the first stage of the new UBB information center, to be completed with the forthcoming construction of the Information Services building, forming a new entrance to campus.

Each project, with its own demands and constraints, is the result of a diffuse process, which works synthesize multiple experiences and vivid.

Enhancing the public and open character of the University, as did Emilio Duhart in UDEC, Broke part of the first level to be a covered pedestrian walkway on a wooden platform raised above the flood elevation, protected from north winds accompanying the heavy local rainfall.

The oprimary recovery, agreed to empty a timber suspended volume. It opened its two ends to the foliage of trees and vertical incisions on their side faces, riffing with light walking. Modeling daylight, subtract three vertical gaps, reinterpreting the courtyards of the former library, overhead light flooding the interior and exterior corridor. All of the above, to form an inner landscape, which hint at possible uses of space, allowing diverse reader’s request, within the walls of books and light gaps between the steel columns and foliage.

Responding to the poor quality of the clay soil, along with some polished concrete walls, was shown a predominant structure of steel, explaining their resistance to earthquakes by their diagonals, seeking an expression close to a rough work, where the architecture is slightly more its structure, as developed in his sculptures Max Bill summing up of columns and beams.

As the heating system, radiant floors is chosen, it looked passive vents, directing the natural pressure of the soft summer breezes, and is considered an outer skin in ventilated shed local radiata pine.