Architecture firm Wolfgang Tschapeller has renovated a library at Cornell University and added  suspended shelving, which prompted criticisms about the potential for upskirting when it opened in earlier this year.
Wolfgang Tschapeller designed the addition for Mui Ho Fine Arts Library located in Cornell University's Rand Hall, which is connected to Milstein Hall ? the university's school of architecture designed by OMA.
Completed in 1911, the library houses the College of Architecture, Art and Planning's collection of fine art and design materials.

The Austrian architecture studio removed a floor from the building to create room for a massive shelving structure that now stands within building's open-plan reading room.
The floors of the lifted structure are made from grated steel, with walkways connecting the aisles of books and also connecting the library to seminar rooms and offices. The shelving units do not have walls to create "transparency" within the structure. "The entire volume of more than 125,000 books is constructed as one floating volume hanging from the roof beams, not to ground and not to floor, but four feet 10 inches above the floor, leaving a free space, a void," the firm said.
"Free of walls, the transparency across and between levels provides visitors multiple overlapping views across interior spaces and outward to the natural surroundings."

"With semi-transparent floors made of steel grating and an absence of walls ...