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beacon art library
Dupont Circle, Washington DC
Arch 401
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8 weeks
Fall 2019
Professor Michael Abrams
The Beacon Art Library is a special library in Dupont Circle. It consists of four floor with classrooms, stacks, private reading rooms, and an outdoor terrace area.
The design focuses on the idea of embedding. There is a translucent box within the larger wooden and concrete building, which is lit up in the evenings and acts as a beacon for the city. The beams and columns create a visual sense of threshold, welcoming guests into the translucent box containing the majority of the stacks.
Additionally, there are light wells creating a sort of glowing effect in the building, as one must cross through the light wells on bridges to enter the stacks.
