The building incorporates the different libraries of the UPC university schools.
The special location of the building right on the border between the city and the university campus, is one of the aspects in which the project has been most sensitive. Its image as a door, on the one hand, and as an urban piece capable of provoking activity and relationship, on the other, have been basic premises when developing the project.
A newly created street will become – as it passes through the interior of the building – a hall generating meeting and circulation, and will be the element that determines the segregation between service areas and served areas.
The main body of serviced areas is intended for the library area. On the first and second floors, the layout of the spaces is similar to the ground floor. They are diaphanous and clear plants when in space. On the top floor the surface regains the entire contour of its building volume. It is a plant closed in itself, with slanted openings to provide tangential lighting and linear skylights oriented directly to the North.
The various materials have been chosen to achieve a good aging of the building. On the façades there is limestone, placed in an airy way, which will cause a composition of joints in accordance with the scale of the building. Inside, the public parts have stone floors and the rest of the flooring in study and consultation areas will be carpeted in order to maintain a degree of acoustic comfort in accordance with the nature of the building.
