Avery Tate ARC 501 Spring 2026
Library Landscape Libraries of the future should be a journey for their occupants. Visitors to libraries have long lost themselves in imagination, whether that be by page or by screen. Libraries are the places we go to escape and seek comfort. Libraries of the future represent these long-held ideals on what a library should look like but also represent adaptability to technological advancement. However changing a library’s program may be in a technological world, libraries should always remain a space of comfort, imagination, and wonderment. The project Library Landscape provides a new landscape experience that connects the old to the new and the indoors to the outdoors. Utilizing pieces of the existing Brooks hall as a shell and adapting the landscape surrounding it poses a juxtaposition between the old and the new or the existing library and the library of the future. A journey is made as the green roof inclines, weaving you back through the old and out to the new again. Along this journey are places for rest, study, and work through programs such as labs, bookstacks, studios, and more. Visitors of libraries of the future immerse themselves in their imagination through page and screen. The library of the future provides comfort, imagination, and wonderment through a journey of information.
Cirrculation
Linear Adjacencies
Museum of Art by Steven Holl, in Kansas City, Missouri Library Delft University of Technology by Mecanoo, in Delft, Netherlands Glenstone Museum by Thomas Phifer, in Washington, DC
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UP
Site Plan 10
N Pullen Park
Vegetation + Greenspace
Pedestrain Vehicular
Winslow Hall
10
10
10
Concept & Precedents
N
N
Holiday Hall
N
Watauga Hall
Brooks Hall
Gold Hall
Welch Hall
Syme Hall
Kamp Hall
Leazar Hall
Elevations 10
Elevation A
10
Elevation B
Elevation C
Conceptual Floor Plans
10
Experiencial Views Floor 2
Floor 1
10
KEY
10
A
outdoor greenspace
N
B
View B
View A
N
B F
library collection work/study studio space A
B
large gathering
A
display work B
View C
C
tech/lab
A
View Section Elevation C
D
E
Conceptual Render Views View D
View E
View F
Section Perspectives Section A
Section B