July 28 Biblioteka (Day 305)
Nearby our Airbnb is an interesting green hued building with a rooftop garden. The front is covered with huge panels with writing of different languages, musical scores and mathematical and scientific computations. (A screenshot from the internet)
This is the Biblioteka Uniwersytecka W Warszawie, the University of Warsaw Library. It was built in 1999 and the garden on the rooftop is open to the public, so we went to visit.
The stairs up to the rooftop border a skylight framed by greenery that is drained by a watering system that flows into a pool at the bottom of the stairs. At the top of the stairs is a domed arbor shading a domed skylight. A juxtaposition to the domes is the glass light-well illuminating a courtyard surrounded by library stacks.
One of the entrances to the library that is restricted to students and faculty.