Luxembourg Learning Center
| Luxembourg Learning Center | |
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| founding | 2018 |
| Duration | 10.7 kilometers of shelves for books, 380 magazines. |
| Library type | University library |
| place | Belval, Esch-sur-Alzette |
| Website | https://llc.uni.lu/ |
The Luxembourg Learning Center (LLC) is part of the Belval University Campus in the south of Luxembourg and has been home to the university library as well as workrooms and seminar rooms since 2018. It unites (and largely replaces) the university libraries on the Walferdange, Kirchberg, Limpertsberg and Belval campuses.
history
The Luxembourg Learning Center was built in an old industrial hall ("Möllerei") from the heyday of iron and steel production in Belval . After the blast furnaces and thus metal production were finally shut down in 1997, the Belval Fund was founded in 2002 with the aim of transforming the abandoned industrial wasteland into the "Cité des Sciences", a research and university center in Luxembourg. In 2005 it was decided to make Belval the main campus of the university, which was founded in 2003 and which finally opened its doors at the new location in 2015.
Since the "Maison du Livre", originally intended for the Luxembourg Learning Center, was still in the construction phase, a temporary campus library was opened with the BiblioLab in the basement of the University's "Maison des Sciences Humaines". In addition to the obvious library operations, the BiblioLab also offered architects and project planners space to test and try out service offers, furnishings and digital services for planning the new LLC.
The LLC opened its doors on September 12, 2018, uniting the BiblioLab and the university library on the Limpertsberg campus.
architecture
The Luxembourg architectural office Valentiny HVP tried to integrate the existing and shaping steel construction of the old industrial hall ("Möllerei") during the planning and thus to create a contrast between the part of the building that had remained in its old condition and the futuristic, partly three-dimensional facade made of triangular, speckled glass elements . 110 meters of the former hall were converted into an LLC, 60 meters were preserved in the old state. When designing the facade elements, the architects were inspired by patterns that earlier steel production had left behind as particle deposits on the windows of the former factory. In addition to aesthetic reasons, the patterns serve to reduce the incidence of light.
Inside, too, the permeability and open character of the facade continues:
"Elliptical platforms that seem to float in open space on thin, partly inclined columns and offer spectacular and surprising views; the huge conveyor belt that extends from the inside of the LLC building to one of the two blast furnaces that are right next to the building [...]. To control the acoustics in such an open structure, the floors were covered with sound-absorbing carpeting and sound-reducing elements were attached to the ceilings. [...] [The] color tones selected for the furniture follow a concept that the Differentiation of the floors based on the color mainly used in them allowed. "
Furnishing
The LLC extends over seven floors (five of which are open to the public, one floor for the magazine and one floor for the technology) and around 14,000 square meters with workplaces, library areas, magazines, seminar rooms and conference rooms, a bistro and garden area. In total there are more than a thousand workplaces, of which 558 individual workstations (152 with computer access), 408 group workstations (163 with computer access) and 85 places in seminar rooms.
The library is equipped with an automatic, RFID -based lending and return system. Tablet PCs are distributed throughout the building. Laptops can be borrowed for a day's use outside the building. In addition to the work area, there are "comfort rooms" for relaxing and exchanging ideas.
The LLC is primarily available to researchers, teachers and students at the University of Luxembourg, but is open to everyone. The LLC sees itself as a central hub of research in the Greater Region ( UniGR ).
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b story. In: Luxembourg Learning Center. Retrieved January 15, 2019 (German).
- ↑ a b c architecture. In: Luxembourg Learning Center. Retrieved January 14, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Innovative. In: Luxembourg Learning Center. Retrieved January 15, 2019 (German).
- ↑ Open. In: Luxembourg Learning Center. Retrieved January 15, 2019 (German).