COLUMBUS METROPOLITAN LIBRARY: Gahanna BRANCH / NBBJ
Image by Brad Feinknopf ©NBBJ
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Role: Lead Designer
Client: Columbus Metropolitan Library
Size: 37,500 sf
Typology: Library
Location: Gahanna, OH
Status: Under Construction
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The Columbus Metropolitan Library’s new Gahanna branch represents a step forward for a community nurturing new development at its civic core, envisioning its growth, and bringing an urban mentality to a new generation of customers. It aims at manifesting all of the positive things that library design can bring to enrich our communities – learning, socialization, respite, nature, and self-fulfillment.
Stemming from the Algonquian word that means “three into one,” Gahanna gets its name from being the location where Alum Creek, Blacklick Creek, and Big Walnut Creek converge. Additionally, as Gahanna celebrates its stylistic and demographic diversity, the architectural concept is rooted in capturing a larger sentiment of convergence in its form and site disposition as well.
The massing evokes convergence by implementing three ‘bars’ of varying scales and lengths that are joined in their breadth. In doing so, the building satisfies the functional need while creating a more humane scale of spaces, and addresses a more rhythmic cadence / urban disposition at the entry and street.
