Crawshaw Architects has\u00a0given a new twist to traditional library architecture with this re-invented out-building in Dorset, UK. Adjoining a Grade II-listed Georgian farmhouse and water mill, the new library is housed within a transformed former cowshed and farm equipment store. Architect Aidan Crawshaw,\u00a0the London-based studio\u2019s founder, was commissioned to...
, with the intention on creating a home for a substantial collection of historic books on Palladian architecture.
Crawshaw, working with his colleague Pandora Dourmisi, chose to preserve the proportions and form of the original farm building. The library is based around a long central arched nave flanked by a pair of aisles containing the book stacks, a modern interpretation of classical proportions. These not only reference the Palladian book collection but were constructed using carpentry and metal-working methods that hark back to the building’s days as part of a working farm.
At one end, the new office retains the original pitch of the roof, while a perfectly symmetrical French door with arched fanlight sets up a vista back down the length of the library. The solid oak arches and columns used throughout are slender and elegant, with the vertical columns forming part of two reading desks and a low bench. The oak is paired with black steel external windows and simple white painted walls.
craft, natural materials and perfect geometry evoking the grandeur and atmosphere of a much larger space. §
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