NILSA SARMIENTO
Architect and Lighting Designer
PUBLIC LIBRARY
This public library was my graduation project to get my Architectural degree in 2010 and it was mean to be a real project but due to bureaucratic problems in the city, it was never built.
It was designed for a city with a population of 100,000 people. The building has an asymetrical shape based in a composition made of rectangles and trapezoids of different sizes.
It consists in a ground floor, and 2 high levels that contain: newspaper and magazine archive, area of book consultation, audio library, video library, studyroom, group work area, braille books, books in otherlanguages, children’s corner, presentations room, exhibitionhall community, cafeteria, toilettes (per level)administrative and safety area. The location of the differentambients was based on: level of noisy, frequencyof use, relationship between areas.The project also include the landscape design of thearea.