Abstract

The academic library is one of the essential places within any university campus. However, in the past few years academic libraries are facing many challenges in meeting students’ needs due to the transformations in information and technology commons. While academic library spaces are physically transforming through this shift, the conceptualization of library for many students is still as an information repository. Therefore, the design of architecture school library should go with the new teaching and learning strategies through providing multifunction spaces that support a wide range of users’ learning and research activities. Based on the literature review for architecture library design studies, this paper propose an analytical framework that can contribute to create the sense of place attachment among students in architecture library design. The study implements analytical and quantitative research methodologies. The analytical strategy aims to analyse one of the best practices for planning libraries in architecture and art schools. It will be analysed based on the proposed analytical framework to examine its effectiveness, and to measure the usage efficiency of the academic library in architectural schools in order to promote an effective place attachment. Then we draw on quantitative methodology with a questionnaire for architecture students in three different architectural schools in Riyadh to investigate their needs and expectations from the architectural library. In order to reflect the influence of library design on users’ attraction and exceeding students’ place attachment. From the two research methods, the study reaches an integrated model for an interactive architecture library.

Presenters

Eman Sabry Abowardah
Associate professor, Architectural Engineering, Prince Sultan University

Manal Khalil
Assistant Professor, Interior Design Department, College of Architecture and Design, Prince Sultan University, Saudi Arabia

Mustafa Ramadan

Details

Presentation Type

Paper Presentation in a Themed Session

Theme

2019 Special Focus: Design + Context

KEYWORDS

ARCHITECTURE ACADEMIC LIBRARY, INFORMATION COMMON, SENSE OF PLACE, PLACE ATTACHMENT

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