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The Louisville Project
MIT Design Lab, Americans for Libraries Council, and the Louisville Free Public Library
July 18, 2006
The Louisville Project
Site 2: Southwest
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
A Place You Want to Be
• People come to the library for a reason
• We want them also to come for no reason at all
• The design should foster curiosity and discovery
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Southwest Regional Library
LOUISVILLE CHARETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + American’s for Libraries CouncilLOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Site Challenges
• Heavily trafficked primary arterial
• Surrounded by dense residential
• Adjacent lo developing commercial
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Community Spaces
• Accessible, flexible communal work and meeting space
• Ability to move seamlessly between solitary activity (reading or at the computer) and group connection.
Our library allows and encourages that kind of transition.
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Charrette Participants1. Bill Mitchell – director, MIT Design Lab; director, MIT Smart Cities Project
2. Ryan Chin – MIT Research Associate in Media Arts and Design
3. Marcel Botha – MIT Research Associate in Architecture
4. Edward “Tad” Hirsch – MIT Research Associate in the Smart Cities Project
5. Kenfield Griffith – MIT Research Associate in Architecture
6. William Schickling – President and CEO, Polaris Library Systems
7. Toni Garvey – director, Phoenix Public Library
8. Cindy Read –exec. director of the KY Institute for Family Literacy; immediate past chair of the KY community college system board
9. Ed Kruger – architect at Bravura Inc. in Louisville
10. Matthew Barzun –Founder and CEO of Brickpath.com; former chief strategy officer for CNET Networks
11. Graham Cooke – LFPL assistant director; former co-owner of a chain of independent bookstores
12. Craig Buthod – LFPL director
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Charrette Staff
LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council
Susan Imholz, ALC
Bruce Astrein, ALC
Caitlin Maloney, ALC
Lee Burchfield, LFPL
Laura Hardaway, University of Kentucky School of Architecture