Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library Floor Plan Drawing

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                Robert Hoag Rawlings Public Library                                Pueblo, Colorado                2000/2003

Located in Southern Colorado, Pueblo is sited at the pes of the Moisture Mountains where the Dandy Plains meet the Rockies. Pueblo is both a geographical and cultural crossroads. Native nomadic cultures gathered at the confluence of the Fountain and Arkansas Rivers living off of the rivers and the grazing buffaloes. Later farmers and ranchers settled the plains with domesticated livestock. In addition to the natural geography, Pueblo was as well influenced by the railroad. A major due north/south line crosses a major due east/west railroad line, bringing manufacture to Pueblo, and resulting in a culturally diverse population. Pueblo'south steel and brick industry brought migrant workers to the customs calculation to its demographic diversity.
The new library is a conscientious response to this natural and cultural landscape. The new 109,000-sf library incorporates the existing site and a portion of the existing library too as spanning beyond Bates Lane to additional belongings to the south. The new facility will ascent v stories, taking full advantage of the views over the Arkansas Valley and celebrated Pueblo to the east, as well as distant mount views such as Pikes Peak to the due north, the Wet mountains to the w and Greenhorn and the Spanish peaks to the due south. A due south-facing courtyard greets patrons at the library entry. The new courtyard is planted with fruit copse and is bordered by a reflective pool referencing Pueblo'southward agrarian roots and relationships to water. The courtyard is disregarded past a lobby with drinking glass elevators that extend past the total meridian of the edifice becoming a light beacon at night. Portions of the building are firmly grounded and expressed as a warm tone cast- in -place physical analogous to surrounding topography. The sky wing that extends over Bates Lane is anchored by warm tone concrete walls that buttress both sides of the street which is spanned with a glazed bronze clad wedge that contains main reading areas and popular book stacks.

Entering the library one is presented with commanding views to the eastward over the Arkansas River and downtown through a 56' tall glazed lobby wall. The main floor contains volume check in / check out, the children's library and a java/ juice bar that opens to the principal lobby and entry courtyard. The children's library defines the north border of the entry courtyard with a glazed wall greeting visitors with books and children's activity while passing through the courtyard to the main entry.
Patrons ascend a one thousand staircase off the main lobby or take the glass elevator to the second level that houses the library'due south main collections. This large open up flooring radiates outward from a primal hub. The information service desk along with computers and Internet admission is located near the heart. The non-fiction collection is housed to the east in a portion of the remodeled existing library. To the northwest, reference and fiction collections;comprised of new materials, magazines and audio/visual collections, open up to planted terraces and the entry courtyard below, spanning over Bates Lane to the due south.
The 3rd level houses the library's special collections as well as the library's administrative offices. The heavily used genealogy collection overlooks the courtyard below and is open to mount views to the south. The premier Western History collections are open to a two story glazed opening aligned with Pikes Peak to the north. Administrative offices are located in the sky wing spanning over Bates Lane. Located on the south end of the skywing is a shaft lounge that opens to a private terrace that is covered by a tapered cantilevered trellis above. Employees take access to a secondary entry on the south side of Bates Lane.
The upper level of the library occupies the highest role of the wedge over Bates Lane; a special meeting room and 'Infozone' are housed here in a penthouse mode. The special meeting room contains a catering kitchen and opens to planted terraces both to the north and s with views of the Colorado Front Range. Cantilevered past the end of the wedge, the 'Infozone' is aligned with a view to the n and to Pikes Peak.

In association with Executive Architect Anderson Bricklayer Dale