JUSSIEU - TWO LIBRARIES, FRANCE, PARIS, 1992

Winning competition entry for two libraries on the Jussieu campus in Paris

In the award winning scheme for two libraries at Jussieu, a technical university in Paris, OMA radically reconfigures the typical library layout. Rather than stacking one level on top of another, floor planes are manipulated to connect; thus forming a single trajectory - much like an interior boulevard that winds its way through the entire building.
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FACT SHEET

Project:
Two libraries and student facilities at the Jussieu University campus in Paris

Client:
Ministere de l`Education Nationale et de la Culture, Academie de Paris

Year:
1992

Status:
Competition, 1st place

Location:
Paris, France

Site:
Universite Pierre et Marie Curie-Paris 6eme and Universite Denis Diderot-Paris 7eme, the Jussieu campus of the Sorbonne, on the left bank near the Boulevard St.Germain and the Seine, built in early 1960's by Albert, yet never completed

Program:
Humanities library (8,000m2), science and research library (10,000m2), student facilities (4,000m2)

Materials:
Steel column grid and concrete slabs, glass shingle facade

Budget:
€62,000,000

COLLABORATORS

Engineering:
Cecil Balmond (structural), Rory McGowan (structural), Crispin Matson (mechanical), Sean Billings (façade), Coyne Bellier

Program consultants:
DA&DU

Adviser:
Jean Attali

Model:
Daan Bakker, Rene Heijne, Ad Kliphuis, Markus Lüscher, Gijs Niemeyer, Stein Vossen, Ronald Wall

CREDITS

Partner in charge:
Rem Koolhaas

Competition team:
Christophe Cornubert, Xaveer de Geyter, Rene Heijne, Markus Röthlisberger, Yushi Uehara with Hernando Arrazola, Siebe Bakker, Gary Bates, Gro Bonesmo, Arjen de Groot, Jerry Kopare, Markus Lüscher, Peter Oudshoorn, Jacob van Rijs, Roland Stuy

Design development:
Rem Koolhaas, Christophe Cornubert, Anne Mie Depuydt, Rene Heijne, Winy Maas, Jacob van Rijs, with Matthis Bauer, Frans Blok, Partcik Cosmao, Michael Hsu, Ray Maggiore

PUBLICATIONS

L'Architecture d'Aujourd'hui #286, 04/93
El Croquis: Rem Koolhaas/O.M.A. 1987/1992 #53, 1992