- Kitchen RemodelingOut of a total of 18 investors, 10 of them live in the building, and each of those resident investors was able to custom design their living space, Dale said. He noted that many of those units have “wood floors, marble countertops, Bertazzoni appliances, fancy custom lighting, all the things you might put in a high-quality single family home.”
- FramingThe issue boils down to how to create equity in an environment, addressing the different spatial needs of all individuals, and then framing all these choices in a demographically appropriate visual concept. We use disparate values as the main factors because they often require more careful consideration—wider hallways for wheelchair access, tactile floors for the visually impaired, or even something as simple as wider chairs to accommodate larger bodies. Interior spaces are transformative when users can interact seamlessly with them, without having to take into account their specific circumstances, and this is true regardless of the project's target audience.
- Irrigation SystemsThe top level of the building is used as events space and includes an extensively landscaped green roof, serviced by a rooftop irrigation system. The flooding was caused when a pipe in that infrastructure burst. Over the course of an evening, more than 60,000 gallons of water flooded down into the library, and when staff discovered the damage the next morning they were standing in 2-inches of water.
- CarpentryMass plywood panels form the structure community building, with glulam beams spanning the building and mass timber columns supporting the space / photo courtesy of carpentry plus