The Wooden Library and Auditorium University Design

This is a library and auditorium for the University of Amiens that incorporates a wooden smart skin. It can control the internal space ambiance and frames views. This building will constitute a central place for exchanges and meeting around technologies as well as the catalyst of an intense campus social life. The auditorium’s sloped floor follows the natural landscape of the site.

The building manages a gradual transition of spaces from the reception hall, for groups and meetings to more individual spaces dedicated to silence and high concentration. So, the architectural and technical devices are placed on a regular grid of 1.80m x 7.20m. It can help the library offer a more opened and flexible interior space. The wooden façade is comprised of wooden scales. It opens or closes according to the level of humidity in the air. There’s also the full height glass curtain wall which is protected by wooden sun-shading.