A Library in Disguise Mixes Campsites with Books in Prescott Valley

摘要

Forget all you know about libraries. Gone are mausoleum-like monuments to silence and staid intellectual pursuit. "If you're going to create these big community gathering areas, these community living rooms, they need to be warm, inviting spaces," says architect Jim Richard, principal and senior designer with richard + bauer, the Phoenix-based firm that designed the new Prescott Valley Public Library and Yavapai College Extension. "In order to be vital, they need to be used." Energy pulses through Richard's design for the 25 million dollars project, funded 80/20 by the town and college and rising in the civic center complex. It will include 52,000 sq ft of warm social spaces and leading-edge technological gadgetry with-in architecture that has already won an "On the Boards" award from the Library Administration and Management Association and International Interior Design Association.