Planned phases of renovation will include a variety of new library functions. The library’s transformation will be completed in multiple phases over the next eight years. Renovations will target LEED gold certification and follow NYC Active Design Guidelines. The Hunter College Library is being re-imagined for the 21st century to become the intellectual heart of the Hunter College by providing spaces for instruction, collaborative learning, information literacy, academic support, as well as physical and digital collections including archives and special collections.Įmbracing contemporary models of 21st century academic library planning, this study included workshops and discussions with students, faculty and administrators in order to identify the programmatic goals for transforming the Hunter College Library into the intellectual heart of the campus. To help the library better serve the needs of today’s academic community at Hunter, we have assisted the College in identifying the library’s needs and opportunities and to address its deficiencies in a series of workshops, presentations, reports, analyses feasibility of phased renovations. At the same time, the functional requirements of today’s academic libraries have evolved considerably. Since 1984, the library’s building systems, finishes and furniture have endured decades of heavy use and deferred maintenance. The library opened in 1984 and was originally designed to serve a more modest student body than the 23,000 undergrads and graduate students currently enrolled at Hunter College. Masterpieces: Library Architecture + Design by Manuela Roth, featuring Glen Oaks Branch Library (pp.The main library at Hunter College is the Leon and Toby Cooperman Library occupies more than 135,000 gross use able square feet over nine floors of the East Building at 921 Lexington Avenue in New York City. The New York Times, “Evolution for Libraries in Brooklyn: Plans for Brooklyn Branches have Merit” by Michael Kimmelman, featuring Re-Envisioning Branch Libraries study,, January 25, 2015 The Architectural League of New York, “Thirty Years of Emerging Voices” featuring Glen Oaks Library, Toni Stabile Student Center, Tenrikyo Mission New York Center, Slide Library, Nara Convention Center, and Chelsea Loft, Princeton Architectural Press, 2015 Prototyping for Architects, edited by Mark Burry and Jane Burry, featuring Flatform, Thames & Hudson, 2016 The work of Marble Fairbanks is published regularly in books, journals and news media and has been exhibited in galleries and museums around the world including the Architectural Association in London, the Nara Prefectural Museum of Art in Japan and the Museum of Modern Art in New York where their drawings are part of the museum’s permanent collection.Īrchitecture Information Modeling, (work featured) edited by Danielle Briscoe, published by Routledge, 2016 In 2008, the Museum of Modern Art commissioned their project, Flatform for the exhibition Home Delivery: Fabricating the Modern Dwelling. His firm, Marble Fairbanks based in New York has received over 40 local, national, and international design awards including AIA Design Awards, Architect magazine’s R+D award, pa (Progressive Architecture) award, and Chicago Athenaeum American Architecture Awards. Scott is a frequent lecturer in the area of digital technologies and industry and recently completed the book Digital Workflows in Architecture: Design, Assembly, Industry published by Birkhauser. He has also taught at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Syracuse, University of Michigan, and University of Calgary. He was previously Associate Adjunct Professor at the Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning, and Preservation where he was Director of Fabrication Research from 2004 – 2008 and Director of Integrated Design from 2009-2015. Scott Marble, FAIA, is a Professor in the School of Architecture at Georgia Institute of Technology and a founding partner of Marble Fairbanks Architects in New York. Master of Architecture, Columbia University, 1986 Keywordsĭigital Design, Digital Workflow, Fabrication, Design, Assembly, Industry Biography Ventulett NEXT Generation Visiting Fellowīachelor of Environmental Design, Texas A&M University, 1983.Dual Master of Architecture & Master of City & Regional Planning.
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