The Billboard
The library is seen as a wall at the edge of town, stretching from Main Street to a quiet setting. The Billboard of books becomes a memorable object to the edge of town.
(From competitor's text)
Enzo Corazza organized his Carnegie Library submission as a thin linear element stretched across the edge of his proposed site, facing out across a well defined, but pastoral landscape. His "itinearity" is created by two walls, one created of books, and the other of objects. The user of the library makes a progressive itinearity between the two, from the town street at the front edge to the undisturbed countryside at the other end.
All principal public spaces of the program are accommodated on the main level, which is accessible to the handicapped, as well as clearly oriented to members of the public arriving by car, or on foot. His meeting room is located so as to be usable independently of the Library's other facilities. A limited second floor includes a series of services and specific use areas, access to and from which is readily controlled from the central desk.
The library employs a construction vocabulary of simple steel and masonry elements which are composed in such a way as to "represent" the various services the library provides to the passer-by.
In its clarity of plan, in its simplicity of movement patterns, in the richness of its articulation and the straightforwardness of its constructional systems, the Corazza design makes a useful contribution to current thinking on library design.
- George Baird
(From competitor's text)
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- Plan
- Site Plan
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- Elevation
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- Axonometric Drawing
