Lighting in Hakodate City Central Library [Hakodate Prefecture]

Figure 1 Vaulted ceiling open-stack corner as seen from the second floor

Figure 2 Open-stack corner as seen from the periodicals corner

Figure 3 Lighting in the reading corner

Brief summary

Hakodate City Library opened on November, 2005 and that inside is bright and open. Most of the book stacks were installed on spacious grand floor with vaulted ceiling and it was designed to be simple and accessible layout. At the same time it was also intended to foster a joy of reading. The grand floor also stores the open-stack corner, the youth and children’s open-stack corner, more over the audio-visual corner and the information corner for citizens. On the second floor, the reference corner, the open book room and the closed stacks are located.

Location: Hakodate City, Hokkaido
Completion: November 2005
Client: Hakodate city
Design and Supervision: AZUSA KITO ARCHITECT & ASSOCIATES, Yuichi Sada Architect
and Associates and JV for Hakodate City Central Library project
Materials provided by: Takeshi Watanabe (TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION)
Photographs(Fig.1 - Fig.3): Copyright TOSHIBA LIGHTING & TECHNOLOGY CORPORATION

*This text is quoted from “Lighting Data Sheet” published in the journal of the IEIJ, Vol.91, Number 10, 2007. The journal contains descriptions of the lighting facilities.

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