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PRIVATE LIBRARY ADDITION, HANDCOCK PARK
PRIVATE LIBRARY ADDITION, HANDCOCK PARK
Los Angeles, CA, United States
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PRIVATE LIBRARY ADDITION, HANDCOCK PARK
Los Angeles, CA, United States
PRIVATE LIBRARY ADDITION, HANDCOCK PARK:The Private Library
for 15,000 volumes is a small project sited in the Hancock Park area. The
client is a bibliophile whose beloved, but always growing, collection was
exiled in a storage unit due to a lack of space in his residence. Our charge
was to create a large room for the storage and display of the 15,000 volume
collection. The client is an admitted eccentric who is well informed about
architecture (completing two years in architecture at Cooper before taking up
the Law) who saw the interior of the library as a private space for himself and
his books and the exterior court (which the building forms in the rear of the
residence) as a public space devoted to the many parties and events he holds at
his house. We facilitated his wishes by siting the addition off the living room
and sheathing the entire building in a zinc skin. This skin was important for
the success of the project from a number of points of view; it allowed us to
have very low roof slopes (5%) which were necessary to maximize the interior
height of the room without blocking the existing upstairs windows, it created a
“fifth” façade on the very visible roof of the building and it provided maximum
protection, against moisture, for the very valuable book collection. The
library has the minimum amount of window area allowed by code and the small
windows required are positioned so as to minimize the amount of natural light
falling on the collection. The skin itself was designed as a single
entity which was folded to fit the volume of the room. Upon this skin the
client wished to project video as a fluid background for his garden
entertainments and as an outdoor cinema for more intimate gatherings. To this
end, the north facade and its joint pattern, was carefully proportioned to accept wide-screen video images, which are projected by a professional grade digital
projector positioned inside the existing house.
for 15,000 volumes is a small project sited in the Hancock Park area. The
client is a bibliophile whose beloved, but always growing, collection was
exiled in a storage unit due to a lack of space in his residence. Our charge
was to create a large room for the storage and display of the 15,000 volume
collection. The client is an admitted eccentric who is well informed about
architecture (completing two years in architecture at Cooper before taking up
the Law) who saw the interior of the library as a private space for himself and
his books and the exterior court (which the building forms in the rear of the
residence) as a public space devoted to the many parties and events he holds at
his house. We facilitated his wishes by siting the addition off the living room
and sheathing the entire building in a zinc skin. This skin was important for
the success of the project from a number of points of view; it allowed us to
have very low roof slopes (5%) which were necessary to maximize the interior
height of the room without blocking the existing upstairs windows, it created a
“fifth” façade on the very visible roof of the building and it provided maximum
protection, against moisture, for the very valuable book collection. The
library has the minimum amount of window area allowed by code and the small
windows required are positioned so as to minimize the amount of natural light
falling on the collection. The skin itself was designed as a single
entity which was folded to fit the volume of the room. Upon this skin the
client wished to project video as a fluid background for his garden
entertainments and as an outdoor cinema for more intimate gatherings. To this
end, the north facade and its joint pattern, was carefully proportioned to accept wide-screen video images, which are projected by a professional grade digital
projector positioned inside the existing house.
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