南美洲法属乌拉圭的首都卡宴是一座充满各民族风情的典型加勒比海小城，最近卡宴大学内建立起一座新的大学图书馆。大学图书馆是大学中的心脏，是绝对的知识圣殿，肩负着重要的知识传播使命，提供书籍，网络，影像等多重服务，是大学象征也是当地的重要标示建筑。建筑师旨在这个项目中展现出图书馆的魄力。
图书馆外层安置一个巨大的百页木格栅方体，这层立面给图书馆披上一层魅影，同时图书馆本体与格栅方体之间的半室外空间可用作展廊，其免受烈日和暴雨的特性 也能充当一个开放的公共聚会空间。这层外皮树立了图书馆的形象并使得图书馆与周边校园环境联系紧密。
A coordinating facility, open to the UniversityThe building of the University Library, located at the heart of the Guyanese University Campus has to be a driving force within the University and contribute to its regional radiance. It is a structuring facility for all the buildings that constitute the Guyanese University Campus : its vocation is to gather books and readers in a unique place dedicated to knowledge, an open and generous place within the University. It is about providing a cultural and documentary service of quality and also materialise the image of the regional community, therefore one of the main issues is to give to the building of the University Library a physical, social and symbolic identity that will impact the one of the neighbourhood and of the city.
Our aim is to give to this unique building for its program and its central position, a proper architecture – identifiable by its volumetry and its uses – combined to an opening upon the whole University.
