The present oil crisis has allowed professionals to dust off old ecological paradigms and has fostered the appearance of multiple architectures that call themselves sustainable. The concern for ‘green’ issues started out as a marginal matter but is now a growing social and economic imperative, and the official certification of a project as ‘ecological’ – issued by a wide variety of associations and endorsed by different national and international awards and recognitions – has become a distinction that both the large established offices and the small emerging studios endeavor to obtain.
Sustainable Design. Six works by important firms embrace the ecological creed in their design process. In Germany, Sauerbruch & Hutton complete the Federal Environmental Agency in Dessau, a complex that is proposed as an example of sustainable construction, and Foster reaffirms his well-known ecological awareness with a Fuller-inspired library for the Free University of Berlin; in France, Lewis raises, with the help of nature, a school complex for Obernai, and Lacaton & Vassal draw inspiration from greenhouse construction to build their social dwellings of Mulhouse; and in the United States, Holl turns an aseptic program such as that of a water treatment facility into a public and mediatic icon in Connecticut, while Ban experiments with recyclable and demountable elements in his New York travelling museum
Started with the shape of a dome.
Free University Library located in Berlin, Germany it was completed at September 2005 desigend by Foster and Partners. Double skinned facade that uses natural ventilation, separation of the flooring structure from the outer facade allows natural light to penetrate into the stacks, interesting dome shape and interesting floor slab shapes
The library is the most prominent element in the firm’s renovation of the Free University campus.
http://archrecord.construction.com/projects/portfolio/archives/0611freeuniversity.asp
Intrested me with shape of the dome with windows at on the ceilings. It's void centre which creates the 'U' shape and the use of different curvatures of the desks with walls at the each floors' edges also made me to get intrest in this building.
Please Sir/ Miss, can you please tell me in which book and the author of the book name you found these pictures of the Free University of Berlin museum (the brain). I have a class project about it due by the 01/31/ 2012, but I can't find any book with the floor plans nor elevations of the design.
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