New York Public Library Stapleton Branch
New York Public Library Stapleton Branch, Staten Island Renovation and Expansion Project, Architecture Images
New York Public Library Stapleton Branch
Renovation and Expansion Project on Staten, NY, USA – design by Andrew Berman Architect
16 May 2017
New York Public Library Stapleton Branch
Design: Andrew Berman Architect
Location: Staten Island, New York, USA
New York Public Library Stapleton Branch
Andrew Berman Architect was asked to design a re-conceived and enlarged branch library located in Stapleton, Staten Island for the New York Public Library. A single room Carnegie branch library, designed by Carrere and Hastings in 1909, had been serving the community for over 100 years, and was to be renovated as part of the library expansion. An empty adjacent lot was allocated for a 7,000 square foot addition to create a new library of 12,000 square feet that would better serve the community and its current needs.
The new library was intended above all to be an inviting, open, and accessible public space for the community. The new library had to be on a single level, stitch new building to old, and be handicapped accessible. An open plan, easily monitored by staff, that provided strategic spatial separations between children?s areas, teen area, and adult area was desired.
Working with the sloping grade of the land, the new building was sited such that a new street entrance could be accessed from grade, without steps. Teen and adult reading and research areas ar...
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