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NATIONAL LIBRARY
Location:
2502, Aguero – Recoleta
The
library was built preserving the green spaces, both the cliffs’ and the
botanical diversity of the environment. Most of it was built half-buried
to allow more space for the storage rooms, a small construction on the
ground floor and an elevated construction of access halls for the public
and office sectors.
The
structure was divided into two kinds of independent foundations.
Direct: books storage rooms, machinery rooms and librarian schools are
built directly on the plot, on beams that support the columns upon which
the storage rooms rest.
Indirect: this is the most representative body of the building with four
bodies resting on thirteen piles each.
Main
building: it counts with three underground floors of storage rooms
covering 19,000 sq. mts. destined for a newspapers and magazines section
(hemeroteca), reading hall for the blind, public and institutional
relations, acquisition and bibliographical exchange, and the archive of
the architectural heritage of the building, communicating to the reading
hall.
The
ground floor is the entrance to the building. The first floor houses the
“Jorge Luis Borges Auditorium”, the “Leopoldo Marechal” exhibition hall,
the bar and the director’s office.
The
second floor is destined for offices and a machinery room. The third
floor houses the audio, media, photography and map areas, the treasury
room, the “Juan L.Ortiz” exhibition hall, the offices of the Salamanca
(Spain) University in Buenos Aires, the National Journalism Academy, the
vice-director’s offices and other areas not open to the public.
The
fourth floor houses the “Mariano Moreno” reading hall destined for
reader’s general consultation. The sixth floor gives access to the
reference sector and the “Gregorio Weinberg” reading hall as well as
various offices.
The
seventh floor is occupied by another machinery room.
Finally, at the top is where the main machinery room is situated
together with lifts, cooling towers and water tanks.
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