Interior
Reading Room for a Library
Oak, lime plaster, and a single suspended luminaire. Furniture is movable so the room can be rewritten by its readers.
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A single room added to the upper floor of a nineteenth-century library. The brief asked for quiet; we delivered an envelope of soft surfaces and a generous, level ceiling.
All furniture is on castors. Tables can join into a long working surface or scatter into solitary stations. The room is, in this sense, never finished.
A single linear luminaire runs the length of the space. It is dimmable from a small dial near the entrance — the only control in the room.