Make Your Library a Landmark

Make Your Library a Landmark

www.louiseschaper.com

Where are the new ideas

Louise Schaper | May 4, 2012

Here?


Here?

Here?


New Landmark Library...is a
prototype or think tank to inspire
the next generation of library
buildings


What Makes a Library a New Landmark?

1. Excellence in design and construction
2. Response to local context and constraints
3. Sustainability
4. Functionality
5. Innovation
6. Beauty and delight

More about the criteria at www.libraryjournal.com
©

Make Your Library a Landmark LJ Design Institute - Louise Schaper | May 4, 2012

2011 New Landmark Libraries

Poplar Creek Public Library

Streamwood, IL
Architect: Frye Gillian Molinaro
Year: 2009
Major expansion
Main Library
96,846 sq ft
66,639 pop. served

From Eyesore to Eye-Catcher

George Lambros © Lambros Photography Inc.



Palo Verde Library/
Maryvale Community Center

Phoenix, AZ
Architect: Gould Evans Associates +
Wendell Burnette Architects
Year: 2006
New construction
Branch + community center
16,000 sq ft library
27,000 sq ft community center
148,719 pop. served

© Gould Evans Associates + Wendell Burnette Architects

Reinvigorating a Community

Cesar Chavez Branch

Phoenix Public Library
Laveen, AZ
Architect: Line and Space, LLC Year: 2007
New construction
25,234 sq ft library
62,866 pop. served
LEED Silver

A Living Room on the Lake

Photo credits: All photos except children’s area © Bill Timmerman, Timmerman
Photography Inc.; Children’s area photo by Henry Tom, AIA, NCARB



Hamilton Mill Branch

Gwinnet County
Dacula, Georgia
Architect: Precision Planning, Inc.
Year: 2010
New construction
20,805 sq ft
44,594 pop. served
LEED Gold

Blessed by Location,
Elevated by Art
© Brian Robbins Photography

©



Durango Public Library

Durango, Colorado
Architect: Barker Rinker Seacat
Year: 2008
New construction
Mail Library
42,000 sq ft
51,600 pop served
LEED Gold
Setting a
New Gold
Standard

© Michael Shopenn Photography



Agave Library (Phoenix Public)

Glendale, Arizona
Architect: will bruder PARTNERS
Year: 2009
New construction
Branch
25,410 sq ft
40,000 pop. served

How the West Was Won

© Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc.


2011 New Here
Slide Title Landmark Libraries
Sammamish Library

King County, Washington
Architect: Perkins & Will
Year: 2010
New construction
Branch
20,000 sq ft
45,790 pop. served

Heart of a New Downtown

© Benjamin Benschneider Photography


Appaloosa Branch

Scottsdale, Arizona
Architect: DWL Architects and Planners, Inc.
Year: 2009
New construction
21,242 sq ft
72,000 pop. served
LEED Gold

Shimmer of Green
in the Desert

© Bill Timmerman, Timmerman Photography Inc.



Roseville Library

Roseville, Minnesota
Architect: Meyer, Scherer & Rockcastle
Ltd.
Year: 2010
Major expansion
Branch
74,175 sq ft
48,860 pop. served
LEED Gold

Pop Goes
the Library!
© Lara Swimmer Photography
©


2011 New Here
Slide Title Landmark Libraries

Anythink Wright Farms

Rangeview Library District
Thornton, Colorado
Architect: Humphries Poli Architects
Year: 2010
New construction
Main library
45,000 sq ft
117,000 pop. served
LEED Gold

The Cure for Any Identity Crisis
Photo credits (counter-clockwise): Marcus Farr; Stacie Ledden; Kent Meireis;
Kent Meireis.


2011 New Landmark Library Trends

1.Get greener
2.Flex for unfolding future
3.Use fewer and smaller service points
4.Win with self-service
5.Think collaboration
6.Borrow from museums
7.Be more retail like
8.Apply a minimalist ethic
9.Save the neighborhood


found at Design
Institute Phoenix:
delight @ the
Agave Library


The 2012 Colorado Tour


2012 Tour:Here
Slide Title Denver Central Library

1956; major expansion 1990
540,000 sq ft
Michael Graves/Klipp Colussy Jenks DuBois


2012 Tour: Anythink Huron Street

Thornton, Colorado
2010
25,000 sq ft
LEED Gold
Humphries Poli Architects, PC



Innovative and functional



Comfortable seating and
“experience” environment



Sparking creativity



Sparking creativity anyplace



Sustainability



Stunning, Paradigm-Busting, Shelving


2012 Tour: Anythink Wright Farms

Anythink Wright Farms

Thornton, Colorado
Architect: Humphries Poli Architects
Year: 2010
New construction
Main library
45,000 sq ft
117,000 pop. served
LEED Gold
$204 sq ft construction

Photo credits (counter-clockwise):
Marcus Farr; Stacie Ledden; Kent Meireis; Kent Meireis.



Innovation



Staff Manifesto

You are not just an employee, volunteer or board member.
You do not merely catalog books, organize periodicals, and manage resources.
You are the gateway into the mind of the idea people who come to our facilities to
ﬁnd or fuel a spark.

Part Wizard
Part Genius
Part Explorer

It is your calling to trespass into the unknonw and come back with a concrete
piece someone can hold onto, turn over, and use to fuel their mind and soul.

A revolution of Rangeview Libraries


Functionality



Excellence in
design and
construction



The “wow” factor



Sustainability



Beauty and delight


2012 Tour: Green Valley Ranch Branch

Green Valley Ranch Branch
(Denver Public Library)
2011
26,000 sq ft



Sustainable and welcoming



Sustainable



Public art installation
“Cloudseeding”



Planes & Plains



Functional



Collaboration and creativity



Flexibility and families


2012 Tour:Here
Slide Title Southglenn Library
Arapahoe Library District 2009 17,500 sq ft
Centennial, CO Barker Rinker Seacat

Response to Context

2012 Tour:Here

Innovation: neighborhoods for non-ﬁction


2012 Tour:Here

Private and public


2012 Tour:Here

Functionality: service pod of
friendliness


2012 Tour:Here

Budget and staff friendly


2012 Tour:Here

Sustainability: milk jugs
masquerading as seating


2012 Tour: Philip S. Miller Library

Douglas County Libraries
Castle Rock, CO
45,000 sq ft

Adaptive reuse of Safeway


2012 Tour: Philip S. Miller Library

Castle Rock, CO
45,000 sq ft


2012 Tour Here
Slide Title Wrap-up

Some themes that emerged
1.Question assumptions
2.Drill down the mission to its core
3.Be a brand, create an identity
4.Know your community types
5.Build to last
6.Be green and share the knowledge
7.Get big results from small decisions
8.Plan for the unknown
9.Think privacy, collaboration, social & togetherness
10.Create viewing, playing, creating, thinking spaces
11.Bring in the light
12.Raise the ﬂoors
13.Rediscover quiet


Make Your Library a Landmark

Recomendados

Recomendados

Mais conteúdo relacionado

Semelhante a Make Your Library a Landmark

Semelhante a Make Your Library a Landmark (20)

Último

Último (20)

Make Your Library a Landmark

Notas do Editor