The area of more than 16,000 square meters can accommodate not only a large book collection, but also a conference hall, more than 20 individual and group study rooms, a cinema, meeting rooms, a makerspace and creative workshop for new technologies, a recording studio, a digitization lab, classrooms, a café, a space for young children and many other interesting and useful things and spaces.
Black cube
Principal Investigator
Black cube
Place of realization
Ostrava, Moravskoslezský kraj
Key partners
Importance for the region
Ostrava and the entire region will have a new modern information and educational institution. Our new research library will be called the Black Cube and will be a space with a focus on users in all age groups and life stages.
The Black Cube is a library that inspires, changes and moves us now and our children in the future. We transform, develop and support people and their potential. We provide access to the latest knowledge and insight through new technologies, while nurturing our cultural heritage and not being afraid to innovate.
We emphasize a timeless approach that responds to people and also to highly fluid topics such as culture, technology and media. We are an institution that perceives the continuity of human nature while remaining open to the changes around us. The Black Cube helps us to move forward, to navigate the fluid world of information. We are a tool for all the people of the region.
The Centre for Digitisation, Science and Innovation and the new super-modern headquarters of the Moravian-Silesian Research Library.
- In cooperation with universities and other scientific institutions, the Moravian-Silesian Region will create a place for robotics, digitalization, innovation and smart technologies in the library sector and beyond. Formal and informal education will take place here. Support for the development of the creative industry will be an integral part of this. It will also provide space for start-ups and facilities for nurturing talent. It will become a centre for education and a meeting place for different generations, institutions and entrepreneurs and companies.
- The black cube features an impressive design and extensive spaces. It is designed with sustainability in mind. It uses modern low energy technologies, heat pumps for efficient heating and cooling, quality insulation and materials to reduce energy loss, natural ventilation, photovoltaic panels on the roof, LED lighting with lower electricity consumption and rainwater harvesting for purposes such as flushing.
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