OODI LIBRARY, HELSINKI


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© Tuomas Uusheimo ‘BOOK HEAVEN’ The top floor delivers typical library functions in untypical surroundings


at carefully chosen intervals. Unlike on the other two floors, here the building’s timber volume incorporates a small band of gaps between the cladding, providing more restricted daylight to the second floor.


Interiors


On the street level, the ground floor has been designed as an extension of the nearby open space, with the intention of it becoming an integral part of the city’s public sphere. As there is a lot of visual as well as audible noise around this area, the more group-oriented functions are located on this floor, including the restaurant, along with an acoustically insulated space for the National Audiovisual Institute’s cinema. Both of these can be seen from the street level exterior.


Heading inside from the main entrance, visitors first encounter the checkout and returns functions, with a restaurant and the main staircase to their left, and to the right an information desk to guide them around the three levels. Next to the information desk are the escalators and drop-in computers, and there are also lifts on both


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