This project reimagines the library as an evolving third place. It is an adaptive social infrastructure that fosters collaboration, knowledge exchange, and creativity. Situated in a repurposed industrial building, the design challenges the conventional notion of a static library by introducing an open, flexible space that responds to the needs of Brooklyn’s artists. Rather than a place of quiet study, it is a fluid and dynamic environment where creative production, learning, and community engagement seamlessly coexist.
Historic library was once centered on books and silent reading. This projects transforms the library into an active civic infrastructure for making and collective production. Archives expand into fabrication labs, reading rooms evolve into exhibition and workshop spaces, and studio and technology areas become visible extensions of knowledge. Books remain, but within a broader ecosystem of material experimentation and public engagement.
Workshop + Fabrication
Reading
Study
Material Lab
Exhibition
