Integrating New Functions into the Historic Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in Weimar, Germany
Despite a fire in the library, the Herzogin Anna Amalia Bibliothek in
Weimar opened its extension in February 2005 on schedule. The new Study Centre
covers an area five times larger than the corresponding rooms in the old library
and offers readers 120,000 volumes on open access. The new underground stacks
constructed at the same time offer good preservation storage conditions for up
to one million volumes. It is a great advantage that an underground connection
integrated the new build with the old and eliminated any potential division of the
library. The new Book Cube with its clear geometry is the centre of the diversely
proportioned group of buildings and a modern counterpart to the Rococo hall
of the original green palace. The four internal walls of the Cube are designed as
multi-storey bookshelves with galleries above and below ground. A sequence of
underground rooms connects the Cube to the historic library building. It has been
possible to create an integrated entity combining the new and the old, not by
imitation, but by treating the whole ensemble.
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