Serero Architects’ winning design for a library and auditorium for the University of Amiens incorporates a wooden “smart skin” that controls the internal space ambiance and frames views. Resting in the middle of the campus, the new building will “constitute a central place for exchanges and meeting around technologies as well as the catalyst of an intense campus social life” explained the architect.
Both the library and auditorium are at the same level as the central garden, and the auditorium’s sloped floor follows the natural landscape of the site. A reception hall ties these two volumes together and acts a transition space from the lower level of the site to the garden.
