Site Context

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View of Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center at Dusk

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Civic Space at Street-Level

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Information Desk and Vertical Connections

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Children's Reading Room

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Second Level Arrival and Lounge

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Second Level Connections

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Glacial Outcroppings on Street-Level and Reading Nest with Mounded Shrub Thicket

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Third Level Demonstration Garden

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First Floor Plan

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Second Floor Plan

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Third Floor Plan

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Section Perspective

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Multi-Level Landscapes

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Facade Materials Diagram

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建筑师：Marble Fairbanks

位置：107 Norman Avenue, 11222 Brooklyn, 美國

年份：2020

客户：Brooklyn Public Library

团队：Karen Fairbanks, Scott Marble, Nicholas Desbiens, Jason Roberts, Peter Adams, Benjamin Hait, Keenan Korth, Lauren Espeseth, Spenser Krut, Tanya Gershon, Ravipa Ramyarupa, Atrianne Dolom

Landscape Architect：SCAPE / Landscape Architecture

MEP/FP Engineers & LEED：ads Engineers, PC

Structural Engineer：Robert Silman Associates

Civil/Geotechnical Engineer：Yu & Associates

IT & Security：Preda Consulting Engineer

AudioVisual：InToTo Professional Services, Inc

Wayfinding：MTWTF

Lighting：Tillotson Design Associates

Code Expeditor：JAM Code Consultants

General Contractor：Westerman Construction Co, Inc

The role of the branch library today is more than a repository of information – and while access to information and media of all sorts is still a critical part of what the branch libraries do, they also provide many related social services.

The new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center replaces an existing building with a 15,000sf community hub for environmental awareness, activism and education. The Greenpoint Library doubles the size of the previous building, providing significantly enlarged indoor and outdoor spaces to house expanded activities related to the exploration of the environment as well as everyday library use. The primary program elements are adult, young adult, and children reading rooms and collection spaces, and community spaces for regular library programming as well as for the Environmental Education Center. Lab spaces for interactive projects, a large community event space (which divides into two of the lab spaces), a lounge, small meeting rooms, and staff spaces are distributed on the two main floors.

The new Greenpoint Library and Environmental Education Center provides street level exterior green space, clear visual connections to interior activities, and two accessible green roofs on the upper floors. The plaza design offers the public an engaging civic space that demonstrates sustainability and reinterprets the environmental history of the region. Primary exterior building materials include custom sandblasted wood panels on the upper level and custom cast concrete on the lower level. The building will exceed required LEED goals, becoming a demonstration project for innovative approaches to sustainable design and a learning tool for the community.