The site of the new library was formed by combining six separate courtyards. Together with the restoration of the existing campus buildings, this reorganisation was the second part of the Free University redevelopment. Opened in 1971, Candilis Josic Woods and Schiedhelm’s mat-like campus design was planned to ensure that the buildings could be reconfigured as the university’s needs dictated. Buildings were clustered around a series of internal streets and corridors to encourage open communication, with the faculty and facilities decentralised across the university. As such, the Free University exemplified the architectural experiments of the 1960s by Team X and others who sought to produce an architecture that was itself an organisational structure. Conceived as an ‘ideal city,’ the Free University was immediately hailed as a milestone in university design.