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Murrieta Public Library
Murrieta, CA
The Murrieta Public Library serves as a focal point of the village-like Murrieta Town Square Development.
The Murrieta Public Library serves as a focal point of the village-like Murrieta Town Square Development. With echoes of Murrieta's agrarian history, clustered and informal collections of sheds, gables, flat roofs, and silos are reinterpreted to create a familiar, comfortable, and unique vocabulary of forms. The main roof of the library opens itself up to the park to let in the soft north light and capture the garden views. Operable clerestory windows allow for natural stack ventilation to cool the building, while the building's integrated photovoltaics capture solar energy to reduce operating costs. Attention to detail, open web steel joists, consistent rhythms of exposed rafter tails, and banks of substantial windows embrace the spirit of "craftsman" architecture.
The construction of this new single-story 25,395 SF public library will include community meeting facilities and related site work. The structure is cast-in-place concrete with load-bearing concrete masonry units, steel frames and wood glu-lam beams, and a wood roof structure with metal standing-seam roofing. The interior features a central, high-volume reading room with custom wall and ceiling treatments.
Project Stats
Owner: City of Murrieta
Location: Murrieta, CA
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