Ibadan University Library

Conceived as living infrastructure for knowledge, the new Ibadan University Library replaces fragmented campus reading rooms with a unified ten-storey building designed around a central cascading atrium. Reading rooms spiral upward around a structural core of interlocking concrete rings, drawing daylight deep into every study floor. The building houses 1.2 million volumes, two dedicated digital research floors, and a rooftop faculty reading terrace with unobstructed views across the Ibadan plateau — a new intellectual landmark for one of Nigeria’s oldest universities.

Key Features

• 1.2 million volume capacity distributed across ten reading and reference floors

• Central cascading atrium formed by interlocking pre-cast concrete ring structure

• Two fully-equipped digital research and computational data science floors

• Automated underground retrieval system serving basement high-density stack levels

• Rooftop faculty reading terrace with unobstructed views across the Ibadan plateau