The Louisville Project

MIT Design Lab, Americans for Libraries Council, and the Louisville Free Public Library

July 18, 2006

The Louisville Project

Site 2: Southwest

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

A Place You Want to Be

• People come to the library for a reason

• We want them also to come for no reason at all

• The design should foster curiosity and discovery

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Southwest Regional Library

LOUISVILLE CHARETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + American’s for Libraries CouncilLOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Site Challenges

• Heavily trafficked primary arterial

• Surrounded by dense residential

• Adjacent lo developing commercial

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Community Spaces

• Accessible, flexible communal work and meeting space

• Ability to move seamlessly between solitary activity (reading or at the computer) and group connection.

Our library allows and encourages that kind of transition.

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Charrette Participants1. Bill Mitchell – director, MIT Design Lab; director, MIT Smart Cities Project

2. Ryan Chin – MIT Research Associate in Media Arts and Design

3. Marcel Botha – MIT Research Associate in Architecture

4. Edward “Tad” Hirsch – MIT Research Associate in the Smart Cities Project

5. Kenfield Griffith – MIT Research Associate in Architecture

6. William Schickling – President and CEO, Polaris Library Systems

7. Toni Garvey – director, Phoenix Public Library

8. Cindy Read –exec. director of the KY Institute for Family Literacy; immediate past chair of the KY community college system board

9. Ed Kruger – architect at Bravura Inc. in Louisville

10. Matthew Barzun –Founder and CEO of Brickpath.com; former chief strategy officer for CNET Networks

11. Graham Cooke – LFPL assistant director; former co-owner of a chain of independent bookstores

12. Craig Buthod – LFPL director

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Charrette Staff

LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

Susan Imholz, ALC

Bruce Astrein, ALC

Caitlin Maloney, ALC

Lee Burchfield, LFPL

Laura Hardaway, University of Kentucky School of Architecture