The Bruggemeyer Memorial Library of Monterey Park

The overall shape of the Bruggemeyer Memorial Library of Monterey Park is a long rectangular shape, when looked at the floor plan of the building. It is mainly divided into two sections. The first section was made with higher ceilings which were made in the year of 1959. The second section was made with much lower ceilings that were added in the year of 1979.

The proportions of the exterior are about 26,428 square feet wide, 8’ to 10’ with the lower ceilings on the children’s section, and estimate 15’ with the higher ceilings on the adult’s section. The adult’s section is basically the original library, and the children’s section was added on in the year of 1979, that’s why the heights are different. The rooms mostly have rectangular shapes. (Librarian director references)

The interior spaces were organized into two parts. Near the center were where the helping services provided and a place to check out books. On the left side is the children’s section, and on the right side was the adult’s quiet section. The offices and work places for the Librarians were along the south side of the library, where people can only see few parts of the office from the windows. There were two restrooms for men and women on the adult’s section, and one public restroom on the children’s section.

The main facade and entrance was emphasized with walkway that leads people to the main door, besides there were no other ways of going into the library with only one entrance. But before the 1979 reconstruction of the library, the main door was near the south and west side of the library, where the patio and the huge windows are now.

The architectural vocabularies were used on the traffic patterns, where the entrance is also used for the exit. The term atrium was used as the ones back from the Roman houses. The steel beam is a vocabulary which is a medium that supports the library.

The parking was bigger when the library was originally built, but when the reconstruction took place in 1979, it cut down a lot of the parking space. People came to the library where they had huge windows, and that made them feel more comfortable with the environment they were staying in. Because if there were only walls and roofs in the library, people would feel they were locked up in a cage. People liked open spaces where they can look though and imagine they w

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