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Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale: BMVR

BMVR Building Development in Caen, Lower Normandy, Northeast France design by OMA, Architects

3 Feb 2016

Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale, Caen

Design: OMA, Architects

Location: Caen, Lower Normandy, France

Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale in Caen

images courtesy of OMA

The Bibliothèque Multimédia à Vocation Régionale (BMVR) is located at the tip of the peninsula, a focal point of the new development in Caen, states OMA.

The library is designed with two intersecting pedagogic axes which encourage maximum interface between disciplines: human sciences, science and technology, literature, and the arts. With its four protruding planes, the building points to four landmark points in Caen (the Abbaye-aux-Dames in the north, the central train station to the south, the Abbaye-aux-Hommes in the east and the area of new construction in the west), and becomes a symbolic centre for the city.

In the exterior spaces created by these intersecting reading rooms, the library interacts with its surroundings, opening up to a park, pedestrian pathway and waterfront plaza.

The design of the future BMVR Caen meets the Haute Qualité Environmentale, a standard for sustainable building in France. The sustainable approach responds to local climactic conditions to ensure energy efficiency. Shallow floor plans maximise available natural light, creating the ideal reading environment crucial to a library.

Website: Edinburgh

OMA, Architects

BMVR Building Development in Caen, Lower Normandy building design images / information from OMA, Rotterdam

Location: Beaumont-Hague, France, north western Europe

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