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Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center
Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center
New Orleans, LA, United States
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Rosa F. Keller Library & Community Center
New Orleans, LA, United States
Project Featured on Apr 15, 2014
Firm
YEAR
2012
SIZE
5000 sqft - 10,000 sqft
BUDGET
$1M - 5M
Located in the heart of New Orleans’ Broadmoor neighborhood – where flooding due to Hurricane Katrina was particularly devastating – the Rosa F. Keller Library and Community Center serves as a testament to a community’s recovery and the city’s evolving relationship with water. This 10,000-square-foot FEMA replacement project incorporates the complete restoration of an original 1917 historic residence – converting it into a neighborhood community center – and the construction of a replacement library wing designed so that the two buildings can function as a single unit or independent of one another for divergent uses.
A small glazed lobby provides a minimal link between the two buildings, and a transition between the architecture of old and new. The library’s program is organized around a captured courtyard which acts as a respite for users and provides natural light to the center of the building. Program components of reading, circulation, stacks and children’s room all pinwheel around this outdoor court. The wood glue lam structure, a nod to the heavy carpentry of the bungalow, is designed to reveal this pinwheel organization and helps define independent program uses as it rises in scale from the library entry to a high point containing the mechanical core.
The project has achieved LEED certification based on a number of design and operational choices spanning from engineering systems that significantly reduce the building’s energy use to stormwater management strategies that retain nearly all stormwater runoff on site.
A small glazed lobby provides a minimal link between the two buildings, and a transition between the architecture of old and new. The library’s program is organized around a captured courtyard which acts as a respite for users and provides natural light to the center of the building. Program components of reading, circulation, stacks and children’s room all pinwheel around this outdoor court. The wood glue lam structure, a nod to the heavy carpentry of the bungalow, is designed to reveal this pinwheel organization and helps define independent program uses as it rises in scale from the library entry to a high point containing the mechanical core.
The project has achieved LEED certification based on a number of design and operational choices spanning from engineering systems that significantly reduce the building’s energy use to stormwater management strategies that retain nearly all stormwater runoff on site.
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