Exeter Library Floor Plan

Ganley proposals for the library at the phillips exeter academy exeter nh.

Exeter library floor plan. Live q a sessions 23rd and 24th september and 14th october. In its double square plan mezzanine floors overlooking the central full height top lit square space. Library service and coronavirus. The phillips exeter academy library by architect louis i.

It is the largest secondary school library in the world containing 160 000 volumes over nine levels with a shelf capacity of 250 000 volumes. Phillips exeter academy library is a library that serves phillips exeter academy an independent boarding school located in exeter new hampshire. The library has over 1km of shelves containing over 60 000 books cds and dvds which can be issued at any of the self service points. Floor plans and front section of the phillips exeter.

Phillips exeter academy 1966 1. 3 rodney armstrong the new library the phillips exeter bulletin summer 1967. Exeter library is open seven days a week and receives an average of 1 500 visits a day. When it became clear in the 1950s that the library had outgrown its existing building the school.

The library is in the town of exeter new hampshire on west elm street occupying the site of the old main house on the property. The plan required the. And in the last round of changes to the working drawings the top floor was restored. Is what gave the exeter library its fame.

The plan of exeter library was from the very beginning heavily indebted to wright s unity temple not only in its cruciform in square plan but also in its location of the stairs in the corners. Exeter library class of 1945 library louis kahn. In the spirit of the grand classical tradition of the focal organizing space the reading room is a central hall encircled by balconies containing the. In addition the library has a reserve stack of approximately 150 000 items available on request.

Exeter library commentary elemental in its contemporary directness and built also with the sense and durability of the great monuments of history is the library at phillips exeter academy. Fish and albert c. People enter the 111 x111 square library from the ground floor and climb up a grand set of stone stairs to the first floor. Image 13 of 15 from gallery of ad classics.

And perhaps most telling in the plan. 5 armstrong et al 6. The phillips exeter bulletin spring 2004.