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Woodlawn Library Library
- Project: Woodlawn Library
- Square Footage: 18,000 square feet
- Scope of Work: StudioJAED was selected to design and document the new 18,000 square foot Woodlawn Library in a collaborative effort with RMJM Hillier of Princeton, New Jersey. The interior of the main stack area and administrative area of the library features exposed structural steel and an exposed infrastructure to maintain an older, industrial feel. The interior also features 4" raised floors designed to accommodate wires for flexibility. Tungsten, mercury and halogen interior lighting enhances the vast amounts of available light the windows provide. Cherry baseboards, shelving, doors and trim are displayed throughout the building.
- The interior and exterior granite wainscoting was chosen to complement the stone used in existing area homes, while the exterior brick and stone were also selected in a effort to seamlessly blend the new building into the surrounding historic architecture.
- In the early 1930s, William P. Bancroft and New York Central Park landscape architect Frederick Law Olmsted originally envisioned a diagonal pedestrian walkway on the site, which was amazingly incorporated into the location of the library on the site, the design of the building itself, and the design of a new pedestrian bridge.
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