bibliothèque sainte-barbe

BIBLIOTHÈQUE SAINTE-BARBE
A PLACE FULL OF HISTORY
FOUNDED IN THE XVth CENTURY
Sainte-Barbe was
a medieval
college originally
built in 1460 on
Sainte-Genevieve
mountain in the
heart of Paris,
along with many
other colleges at
the time.
THE LAY OUT IN THE XVIIth
AND XVIIIth CENTURIES
REVIVAL AFTER THE FRENCH
REVOLUTION
1830
RECONSTRUCTION
BY THE LABROUSTE BROTHERS
(1840-1853)
LHEUREUX’S BUILDINGS (1881)
XXth CENTURY
Starting in the 1940s, the Sainte-Barbe
College buildings were demolished except
Lheureux’s buildings.
On the vacated grounds were built the new
Cujas Law Library (1958), « the small »
extension of Sainte-Genevieve Library (1954),
followed by « the large » one for stacks
(1961).
PLAN OF THE PRESENT SITE
THE PRESENT BUILDINGS
The Lheureux’s building, on Valette street,
with the main entrance
This is the second part of the Lheureux’s
buildings, on the other side of the schoolyard.
On the north side, a construction built by Daniel Lionel
and Raoul Brandon, in 1936, links the two Lheureux’s
buildings.
On the south side :
- a building for the staff’s room
- a gym
- a building for class rooms
(1967, architect : R. Lebret).
THE PRESENT VIEW FROM THE
SCHOOLYARD
THE SAINTE-GENEVIEVE LIBRARY : THE READING ROOM, THE
NORDIC LIBRARY, THE STACKS
VIEW OF CHARTIERE STREET
The Cujas Library at
the back, Louis-leGrand high school
on the right and
secondary
entrances of SainteBarbe on the left.
On the north side, a
wall closes the site, at
the back of Ecosse
street.
Above the wall, a
window of the 3rd floor
of the 1930s building.
BIBLIOTHÈQUE SAINTE-BARBE
NEW FONCTIONS IN A HISTORIC SETTING
U3M PROJECT
The rehabilitation of the Sainte-Barbe college
is at the heart of U3M project for university
libraries.
Three aims :
• Multidisciplinary library for undergraduate
students
• Extra-stacks for Sainte-Genevieve and Cujas
libraries
• Documentation centers for legal research
PLANNING OF SURFACES
•
Refurbishment of existing buildings
Library : 9 240 m²
Research : 2 000 m²
Common spaces (technical or security) : 1 429 m²
•
Creation of new surfaces under the yard
Cujas stacks : 726 m²
Sainte-Geneviève stacks : 726 m²
CHOOSING AN ARCHITECT :
THE COMPETITIVE PROCEDURE
• The programmation was ready at the
end of 2001 and the architecture
competition was then launched.
• Four architects out of 113 were first
selected by a jury. They then had to
present their project.
FOUR TEAMS OF ARCHITECTS :
FOUR VERY DIFFERENT PROJECTS
• Agence Stinco
• Agence Lipsky-Rollet
• Agence Desmoulin
• Agence Buffi
The winner was Antoine Stinco
Perspective of 1930s building and yard
The biggest problem was how to keep the historical
elements as close to their original state as possible
while making the building functional.
Exemple : the canteen with specific furniture which must be re-used
There is the architect’s proposal to re-use the marble
tables by placing two together in order to widen them.
The author of these
mosaics is Facchina,
decorator of the Opera Garnier
This is the
amphitheatre
used in the old
days for physics
and chemistry
classes.
The very narrow
tiers will be
widened,
but the furniture
will have to be reused.
The drawing room shows the remains of
beautiful metallic architecture
Charles Gauthier’bas reliefs :
art of drawing accross the ages
Other parts of the buildings
to be preserved : roofs,
façades, the stairs at the
back of Lheureux’s
buildings, and the stairs of
the covered playground.
This last obligation has an
important impact on the
project because it prevents
the architect from putting
the three buildings at the
same level at the ground
floor level.
This proposal of transformation the 1930s
building had to be given up.
BIBLIOTHÈQUE SAINTE-BARBE
THE PROJECT
DISTRIBUTION OF STUDENTS
OF UNIVERSITIES PARIS I, II, III, IV
Economics and
management
13%
Law and
Political
Sciences
26%
Human and
social
sciences
19%
Literature and
languages,
Arts
42%
LIBRARY’S FIGURES
• 1 200 seats
• Organisation of the reading rooms
according to 5 themes
• Open access : 160 000 books and
450 periodicals
• Staff offices (60 persons)
LIBRARY’S RESSOURCES
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Information desk in the entrance hall
Loan desk
Information desk in each reading room
Photocopiers at each level
Cafeteria for students
300 COMPUTERS
• 60 standing terminals
• 50 computers in a specific area
• 190 computers distributed in the
reading-rooms
• 18 printers
DISTRIBUTION OF SPACES
Lower ground floor
Upper ground floor
2nd floor
Library, reading rooms
1st floor
4th floor
3rd floor
Offices
Research areas
Technical areas
Yard
Stacks
THEMATIC DISTRIBUTION OF
COLLECTIONS
Economics and
management
16%
Arts and
Reference Books
13%
Law and political
sciences
21%
Literature and
languages
25%
Human and
social sciences
25%
3rd floor Bât.1936
Literature and languages
2nd floor Bât. 1936
3rd
floor
Chartière
Literature
and
Human and social sciences
1st floor Bât. 1936
2e étage
Chartière
2nd floor
Chartière
Law and political sciences
languages
Upper Ground Floor Bât. 1936
Human
Droit
and
social
sciences
Loan
Periodicals
1st floor
Chartière
and
Upper
Ground
Floor
Chartière
political
sciences
Arts
Law
Upper
Ground
Floor
Valette
ACCUEIL
Entrance
Hall
Lower
Ground Floor
Chartière
Cafeteria
Economics
Reference
Books
and
Management
Entrance
LIBRARY’S PUBLIC AREA
UPPER GROUND FLOOR :
ENTRANCE HALL, PERIODICALS, LOAN,
ARTS, REFERENCE BOOKS
LOWER GROUND FLOOR :
ECONOMICS AND MANAGEMENT,
COMPUTERS AREA
FIRST FLOOR :
LAW AND POLITICAL SCIENCES
SECOND FLOOR :
HUMAN AND SOCIAL SCIENCES
THIRD FLOOR :
LITERATURE AND LANGUAGES
FOURTH FLOOR : OFFICES
SECTION
LIBRARY SERVICES
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Open access collections
Electronic ressources
Loan
Broad opening hours
Thanks to
• Stéphane Kayanakis and Antoine Stinco
for their documents
• François Michaud and Anne-Marie
Chaintreau for their pictures
• Mireille Chauveinc for her help with english