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AD Classics: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill MORE PROJECTS › SELECTED BUILDINGS MOST VISITED OF THE WEEK 29 Apr 2015 The Top 100 Universities in the World for Architecture 29 Apr 2015 11 Tips You Need To Know Before Building A Shipping Container Home 26 Aug 2011 Blueprints of the Star Wars Galaxy 1 May 2015 Take A Look At Milan Expo's 2015 Pavilions on Opening Day Sign In Register © SOM - Ezra Stoller of Esto Photographics Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in the world dedicated to the containment and preservation of rare books, manuscripts, and documents. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and is located in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to the completion of this project, Yale University placed its rare books on special shelving in Dwight Hall, which was the Old Library in the late 19th century. In 1930 these special books were relocated to Rare Book Room collection in the Sterling Memorial Library. The Beinecke library was a gift from the Beinecke family, and since 1963 has accomodated six major collections in its rare and marvelous structure that coincides with the literary gems it stores, including those from the Rare Book Room. The major collections are the General Collection, which are divided into the General Collection of Early Books and Manuscripts and the General Collection of Modern Books and Manuscripts, the Collection of American Literature, the Collection of German Literature, the Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection of British Literary and Historical Manuscripts. More information and images of the library after the break. The main concern that both SOM and Yale University considered in the design of the library was the preservation of the documents within it. The challenge was to provide ample lighting in the interior for people to study and read and to make it a pleasantly habitable space while limiting the amount of light that affects the stored volumes. The response became a beautiful choice of classic materials gleaming amongst the neo-Classical and neo-Gothic buildings surrounding the library in the Hewitt University Quadrangle on the campus. Made of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass, the exterior gives the illusion that the building is completely solid when viewed from the outside. It’s “windows,” blocked in a consistent linear rythmn along the exterior, consist of white, gray-veined marble panes that are one and one-quarter inches thick and are framed by shaped light gray Vermont Woodbury granite. The sleak marble allows for enough light to filter into the interior spaces without damaging the collections. The structure that frames these rectangular blocks consists of of Vierendeel trusses, high, and 88′ and 131′ long, which transfer their loads to four massive corner columns. The trusses are made out of of prefabricated, tapered steel crosses which are covered with grey granite on the outside and with precast granite aggregate concrete on the inside. The beauty of the library is enhanced by the large open plaza in which it is located. Visitors enter from the ground level into a glass-enclosed lobby that reveals the grand 29 JUN 2010 by Adelyn Perez AD Architecture Classics Featured Institutional Architecture Museums and Libraries Bronze Connecticut Glass Granite Marble SOM Steel 622 Like Like 49 Tweet 712 l 32488 POSTS 391272 COMMENTS Home Projects News Articles Interviews So ware Milan Expo 2015 More Materials ▼ AD Classics: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library / Skidmore... http://www.archdaily.com/65987/ad-classics-beinecke-rare-book-and-... 1 of 6 05/05/2015 16:20
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Yale University’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library is the largest building in theworld dedicated to the containment and preservation of rare books, manuscripts, anddocuments. It was designed by Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, & Merrill and islocated in New Haven, Connecticut. Prior to the completion of this project, Yale Universityplaced its rare books on special shelving in Dwight Hall, which was the Old Library in thelate 19th century. In 1930 these special books were relocated to Rare Book Roomcollection in the Sterling Memorial Library. The Beinecke library was a gift from theBeinecke family, and since 1963 has accomodated six major collections in its rare andmarvelous structure that coincides with the literary gems it stores, including those fromthe Rare Book Room. The major collections are the General Collection, which are dividedinto the General Collection of Early Books and Manuscripts and the General Collection ofModern Books and Manuscripts, the Collection of American Literature, the Collection ofGerman Literature, the Collection of Western Americana, and the Osborn Collection ofBritish Literary and Historical Manuscripts.
More information and images of the library after the break. The main concern that bothSOM and Yale University considered in the design of the library was the preservation ofthe documents within it. The challenge was to provide ample lighting in the interior forpeople to study and read and to make it a pleasantly habitable space while limiting theamount of light that affects the stored volumes. The response became a beautiful choiceof classic materials gleaming amongst the neo-Classical and neo-Gothic buildingssurrounding the library in the Hewitt University Quadrangle on the campus.
Made of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass, the exterior gives the illusion thatthe building is completely solid when viewed from the outside. It’s “windows,” blocked in aconsistent linear rythmn along the exterior, consist of white, gray-veined marble panesthat are one and one-quarter inches thick and are framed by shaped light gray VermontWoodbury granite. The sleak marble allows for enough light to filter into the interiorspaces without damaging the collections. The structure that frames these rectangularblocks consists of of Vierendeel trusses, high, and 88′ and 131′ long, which transfer theirloads to four massive corner columns. The trusses are made out of of prefabricated,tapered steel crosses which are covered with grey granite on the outside and withprecast granite aggregate concrete on the inside.
The beauty of the library is enhanced by the large open plaza in which it is located.Visitors enter from the ground level into a glass-enclosed lobby that reveals the grand
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exhibition hall that holds the books. Beneath this level are two stories which contain themechanical equiptmnt and large book stack space on the lower level, and another stackspace, catalog and reference room, reading room and staff offices arranged around asunken court designed by Isamu Noguchi on the upper level.
When visitors first enter the building they are faced by two large marble staircases thatascend up to the mezzanine level and a large glass tower that is the central core of thebuilding. The mezzanine level allows for people to rotate around the glass tower whichholds 180,000 volumes, centralizing the main purpose of the library. In total the librarypresently holds 500,000 volumes and several million manuscripts, and SOM’s designserves to preserve and glorify the billions of words inscribed inside each rare book.
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Architect: Gordon Bunshaft of Skidmore, Owings, & MerrillLocation: New Haven, Connecticut
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Project Area: 125,262 square feetProject Year: Completed in 1963Photographs: Courtesy of Ezra Stoller of Esto PhotographicsReferences: Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library and Skidmore,Owings, & Merrill
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jcarch •
This is one of my all time favorites. Photo's can't do justice to howbeautiful the light coming through the stone is on the interior.
One thing I've never been able to figure out is how the main volume ofthe building is supported. There's just 4 columns...and the depth of thebeam that would be at the top of those columns just seems tooshallow to hide a beam that could handle that span. And there doesn'tseem to be room in the frames around the stone panels to have turnedthe whole facade into a truss (w/ no diagonals) any resistance todeflection.
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mssngvwl •
'The structure that frames these rectangular blocks consists ofof Vierendeel trusses, high, and 88? and 131? long, whichtransfer their loads to four massive corner columns.'
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mhash •
If you look closely at the plan, you will see that there are columnsintegrated within the glass wall. The same works on the interior withinthe glass box.
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GLK •
This is also one of my favorite buildings. I'm not very fond of thesunken plaza in front of it, but SOM wasn't the only firm building thosenasty things in the '60s.
Here are construction photos of the Beinecke, for whoever may beinterested:
http://beinecke.library.yale.e...
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The Big Black & White Zebr •
HuhThe Elephant & Castle roundabout - London... but I'm thinking thatwas derivative, surely...
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David Basulto •
clap, clap, clap
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Matt •
SOM at their best.
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Rodrigo Duque •
One of my XX century Top ten
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The Big Black & White Zebr •
I don't want to take anything away from what I think is a still uniquecreation...But just going back to the Elephant & Castle roundabout... It's amemorial to William Faraday - the physicist, and houses an electricitysub-station for the metro line nearby. It has historical status and is nota patch on the SOM effort, but two points to note...Firstly it is credited as 1959-61 and SOM's library is 1963. Secondly, Iforget Faraday Memorial's architect but if you do a Google you'll seestainless steel cladding... his original intention was for a glass boxexposing the machinations of the sub-station... ¡ and more like theSOM effort... maybe the SOM client had more vision...
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