PS 42 Robin Hood Foundation Library
The design envisions the library environment as an interim landscape: a fluid series of adaptable settings.
This renovated library for a public elementary school in Queens rethinks the place and purpose of the library within the school. Organized and funded by the Robin Hood Foundation, this pro-bono project is part of a 10-school pilot study.
The design envisions the library environment as an interim landscape: a fluid series of adaptable settings. A curvilinear wall thick with books winds through the space. A curtain printed with a large word search can be drawn shut to enclose a smaller storytelling area and rolling bookshelves can stack to one side of the library to creating one large space. Custom-designed rolling ottomans can be arranged in a variety of playful settings.
Movable furniture pieces, such as custom-designed rolling ottomans, provide full flexibility to rearrange the space as wanted.
Custom furnishings create a fluid series of adaptable settings from the previous gym space