德国科特巴斯大学图书馆（Cottbus University Library）的建筑设计充分体现了导入新信息与媒体服务的革命性理念，城堡式的数字图书馆外形体现了传统与现代的完美结合，享有“2006年之图书馆”（Library of the Year 2006）盛誉。我只看过相关印刷宣传资料，没有亲临现场参观过，现贴一点网上的资料如下，仅供各位朋友参考。

参考阅读：

1、http://www.cottbus.de/buerger/leben/bildung/libraries,45000066.en.html

2、http://www.tu-cottbus.de/einrichtungen/de/ikmz/

3、Cottbus University Library

Cottbus / D
project 1998/99, realization planned for 2000/01
Client: Landesbauamt Cottbus

  H&deM Project Team:    Jacques Herzog - Pierre de Meuron -
                                      Christine Binswanger - Florian Marti   
 -Massimo Corradi - Diana Garay -
                                      Ascan Mergenthaler - Sarosh
                                      Anklesaria - Jens Bonnessen - Ana
                                      Inacio – Carla Leitão

Cottbus is a German city in what was the former DDR near the polish border.

The large campus of the University of Cottbus was built after 1945 in a uniform style comprising buildings of similar shape, height and materials. In the nineteen nineties  ies the campus infrastructure was significantly modernized and also a few modern buildings were added in order to underscore the importance of the University for the reunited Germanies. Our competition scheme  was based on the juxtaposition of two rectangular buildings. Once we were commissioned to start with the final design of the building, the programme had changed and one of the two juxtaposed buildings had been omitted. Also we were convinced that the city of Cottbus needed a different kind of building which would be more sculptural and more of a landmark building within the very generic urban pattern built after the war. What if not the main Library of the University would be the right building to restructure the urban landscape in that part of the city and accentuate the new spirit which animates the whole University?

Like an amoeba the floor plan seems to flow and spread out into the landscaped neighbourhood. A random shape resulting from some immediate artistic inspiration, expressing the architects' emotions ? What looks like a random shape at first sight turns out to be the construction of a suite of movements which have been calculated and tested in model form to structure and reorient the urban space: with a kind of embracing gesture the glazed body of the library faces the main entrance of the Campus. From that side the Library exposes itself as a large volume sitting in the Park. Approaching the same building from the City Center and also from the north, it looks very different, slimmer, like something standing rather than sitting or lying, almost like a freestanding tower. Whichever side of the building one looks at it always provides different views and yet it is one continuous form with no abrupt angles and corners. Like the copper clad Signal Box the volume of the library building represents a fluid uninterrupted whole reminiscent of a body form.

Thus the flowing sculptural shape of the Cottbus University Library results from an urbanistic strategy. This urbanistic strategy continues to work inside the building: the shape of the building helps to generate a great variety of spaces and reading rooms, enabling them to be organized with great freedom and flexibility during the design process. The nine floor plates of the building all have different forms. We cut them so that they would never fully cover the entire surface circumscribed by the line of the facade. The possibility to cut away parts of the floor plates on any floor and in any part or wing of the building gave us an unprecedented freedom to generate a very lively suite of spaces throughout the building. Some reading rooms are very large and two or three storeys high, others are more intimate and have a lower ceiling. Some spaces are very generous and formal, exploiting the curvy glazed shape of the building with large amounts of daylight  from the side or from the top. Other reading areas are more random or hidden away, perhaps on one of the balconies or near the facade with a more private window and a view into the Park outside. A very generous, 7m wide spiraling stair cuts through all floor plates connecting them and providing visual orientation inside the building. This main stair is large enough  for people who are in a rush as well as others who would like to stay for a chat. Smaller stairs will facilitate local connections between floors.

The Cottbus University Library is a heterotopic piece of architecture offering many different spaces with specific qualities within a nonhierarchical and lively spatial organization.