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odegaard
library
By Brian Libby
Photography by
Lara Swimmer
The Miller Hull
Partnership adapts
a Brutalist library
to meet students'
evolving needs
When the University of Washington's Odegaard Undergraduate Library
opened in 1972, the design by acclaimed Seattle architect Paul Hayden
Kirk gave students a bountiful 165,000 square feet of space for study
and research. Four decades later, however, the Brutalist building had
become outmoded, lacking the kind of flexible, high-tech, light-filled
spaces needed by a 21st-century university. Yet rather than tear it down,
the university tasked The Miller Hull Partnership, based in Seattle, to
complete a more sustainable solution: a transformative renovation that
would bring Odegaard into the future.
One of nine projects to win an American Institute of Architects
(AIA) 2014 Institute Honor Award for Interior Architecture, the
Odegaard project began with the client and design firm establishing
a set of learning behaviors that the renovated building needed to
support: active learning, discovery of collection, consultation,
prototyping, informal learning, individual study, and production.
Libraries, after all, are no longer just places to check out books or
study individually; they are places to gather for interactive learning
and exchange in a variety of configurations.
"For an undergraduate today, you need a variety of spaces,"
says Jill McKinstry, the Odegaard Undergraduate Library's director.
"You need space that can help with high-end computing and tech
needs, spaces for the creative part of work, and spaces for reflection.
Undergrads often like to do their work in parallel. Sometimes they work
with others, but other times they find comfort in others doing work
around them. A student may use all of those spaces in a particular day."
Clarifed circulation and improved space utilization
Although the original building was organized around a massive
three-story atrium, its interior was surprisingly dark. Instead of a
skylight at the top of the atrium, a small band of clerestory windows
provided the only natural illumination, but was largely blocked by a
crisscrossing central stairway. The renovation included a large skylight
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Editorial
Publisher’s Letter
Industry News
Columnist: Good Project Management Techniques for Interiors Practices
Product Focus: Not the Highway
Product Focus: Bloom Where You Are Planted
Product Briefs: Education
Princess Nora bint Abdulrahman University
Pat Bosch Reflects on Designing the World’s Largest University for Women in Saudi Arabia
Odegaard Undergraduate Library
Henry W. Bloch Executive Hall for Entrepreneurship and Innovation
University of Copenhagen KUA2
Rethinking Campus Foodservice Design
Forum Overview: Contract Design Forum Repositions Design
Designers Select: Education Solutions
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An Exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Explores the Work of Dutch Designer Marcel Wanders
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