Sight Lines
An urban library uses sightlines, angled towers, and framed greenery to create a calm civic retreat.
PROJECT STATEMENT
This urban library project explores the how architecture can shape visual connections between an urban site and its surrounding. In documenting how views from neighboring windows, porches, and streets expose the site and how trees, neighboring walls and fences enclose the space and foster a sense of privacy.
I investigated how sightlines could become generators of form. Initial massing models developed around key sightlines to surrounding trees, evolving into a composition of angled towers rising from a rectilinear base that responds to both the urban context and natural landscape.
Deliberately placed windows frame surrounding moments of greenery and light while screening the repetitive urban fabric to create a sense of privacy and refuge. The resulting library offers spaces for study, work, and reflection, using architecture to provide a calm civic retreat within a densely residential part of the city.
