Interior Design University Library of the University of Amsterdam by Studio Roelof Mulder

December 4th, 2009 - Posted in Interior design

Located in Amsterdam – The Netherlands, Amsterdam based designers Studio Roelof Mulder and Bureau Ira Koers was completed new interior design University Library of the University of Amsterdam. This is temporary interior design for the 2,500 sqm space that would comprise study rooms plus 235 extra workspaces, the canteen, the information centre with its desk, the hallways, and an automated lending area. Study areas include kitchen-style tables for students to gather around with chesterfield sofas and tree-stumps as seating.

Interior Design University Library of the University of Amsterdam

For instance, in one of the study rooms you will find a number of kitchen tables where you can work in groups under the lamp, a chesterfield couch for reading a newspaper, various sitting areas for a short break and special telephone areas in the hallways between the quiet study rooms. The columns in the canteen are transformed into illuminated trees with low energy light bulbs. The columns in the canteen are transformed into illuminated trees with low energy light bulbs.

Now the students can pick up their ordered books themselves in a newly designed red room that is open until midnight, including weekends. In red cases with 1105 red crates, piles of books lie ready for the borrowers. Because these books come from different locations, this is the heart of the University Library, with a back office hidden from view in which the books are readied for self-service with the RFID system.