a Rural Library in Virginia

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a Rural Library in Virginia

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Educational › Library

YEAR

2011

The site for a new 12,000 sf branch library is a pine thicket at the edge of a public park. The building is intended to recall the agrarian vernacular of the county while expressing a modern design language and being filled with natural light. The main volume of the brick, glass, and western red cedar clad building is 40' wide by 160' long and "slips" just into the tree line at its western end. Here, a glassy café space allows patrons to sit along the perimeter walls while having a feeling of being outdoors. The east end of the building contains a children's story time area placed into a metal clad volume inspired by the silos often seen at the end of a barn in the region. Nine custom Douglas fir and steel trusses support a structural wood deck and standing seam roof which appear to hover over a continuous clerestory window which will glow at night from within.

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a Rural Library in Virginia

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