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LAKE VIEW TERRACE BRANCH LIBRARY
LAKE VIEW TERRACE, CALIFORNIA
Photography:
RMA Photography, Inc.
Jury
Comments: The jury was pleasantly surprised at
the high level of design quality that was incorporated into
this LEED Platinum Certified building. The interior spaces
appear comfortable and inviting, while the use of concrete
masonry contributes to a 40% higher efficiency rating than
California standards require.
Lake View Terrace Library is a 10,700 square-foot City
of Los Angeles branch library and multi-use facility,
located in the San Fernando Valley within the Hansen Dam
Recreation Area.
The library includes a community room, environmental display gallery, and exterior courtyard. A spacious main reading room stretches along the east-west axis and enjoys dramatic views of the park to the south. The building plan responds to the community’s desire to reflect the “rancho” tradition of the region, with interior spaces organized around an open central courtyard.
The library design is the culmination of community workshops, presentations and reviews that brought standing-room-only crowds to local community rooms and city board meetings for two years. Its public meeting room functions on an independent schedule and is now a venue for similar workshops and other community meetings.
Tiles made by area Fenton School students and their families were composed into a mosaic wall in the library’s courtyard that celebrates and records the history of the region.
The program called for a LEED Platinum building, and the design emphasizes reduced energy and resource use, healthy interiors and ample daylighting. Built of durable concrete masonry, glu-lam beams, metal roofing, and wired and ducted for flexibility, it is designed for a “long life.” Concrete masonry columns of standard CMU support exterior trellises and the mission white, burnished concrete masonry walls, exposed to the interior, use the mass properties of the concrete masonry to modulate interior temperatures.
ARCHITECT:
Fields Devereaux Architects & Engineers
5150
Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
J.
Peter Devereaux, AIA
Principal
ENVIRONMENTAL BUILDING CONSULTANT:
GreenWorks
5150
Wilshire Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
James
Weiner, AIA and Dennis Bottum, AIA, Director
Vice Presidents
STRUCTURAL
ENGINEER:
BP Consulting Engineers, Inc.
GENERAL
CONTRACTOR:
Coordinated Construction
MASONRY
CONTRACTOR:
Coordinated Construction
BLOCK
PRODUCERS
Angelus Block Company, Inc.:
Trenwyth Industries, Inc.
OWNER:
City of Los Angeles
