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Cork, Boole Library
b) Aims of the new building
21. The following project goals were identified by the UCC Library Planning
Group:
• to create more library space to accommodate an expanded
student population as well as a significant growth in printed
collections
• to provide a high level IT infrastructure which would maximise
the provision and availability of electronic information sources
and services including multi-media
• to provide secure environmentally controlled accommodation
for the storage and consultation of the Library's valuable special
collections and archives, and to improve access to these
collections
• to enhance the effectiveness of Library services in particular the
provision of subject-specific reader support
• to facilitate new forms of learning such as group study and
independent project based learning, and to establish the Library
as central to learning support
• to improve the quality and fabric of the Library's physical
environment through the creation of quality spaces as reflected
in materials used, design, attention to detail and finish
• to significantly improve library services to research users in all
subject areas
c) Special Features
22. Formal Limestone quarry in centre of historic original campus.
23. Design Concept
The existing Boole Library building accommodates approximately
10 000 m 2 floor space over five floors at the heart of the university
campus. Its bulk has been very successfully integrated into the grain
of the original quadrangle by a carefully arranged composition of
elements that reduce its apparent volume and scale. The buildings
form and materials are a well executed example of a design typology
dating from the 1970’s.
It was considered important that design of the new extension would
not increase the visual mass of the existing, and it was decided therefore
to select a contrasting palette of materials and shapes that would
compliment rather than compete with the existing structure.