Library Expansion & Renovation

The solution involves doubling the size of the existing library by constructing an addition that will centralize electronic information and technology systems and accommodate remaining demand for student reading spaces and stacks. The existing building will be renovated to comply with current codes and reorganized to more efficiently distribute program and staff.

Stacks and reading areas are located in two parallel wings that are extensions of the existing building's axial organization. These "edge structures" are then modified to respond to the site by providing transparency and openness along the edge facing the main campus mall, and by providing a new "porch" structure to redefine the main entrance.

Between the two wings is a "core structure" which is a freestanding object resolving structural, service, and day lighting requirements. This structure is seismically separated from, and cantilevers over, the adjacent wings in order to support a skylight system that brings natural light into the interior of the building's deep floor plate. Electronic reference workstations and multimedia labs are located in this core and are served from a raised access floor containing data and mechanical systems. This core will literally and figuratively form the heart of the new library, and from this location, students can reference all the electronic information available and access all parts of the library.

Upon completion, the 98,000-sf facility will contain 145,000 volumes and 1,300 seats including 275 computer workstations in the central core.

Project Information

Building Owner:

Santa Monica College

Owner Contact:

Dr. Tom Donner, VP Business Affairs

Building Location:

Santa Monica, CA UNITED STATES

Project Type:

Expansion,Renovation

Principal Building Function:

Library

Project Timeline

Nov 1997	Planning Start
Feb 1999	Design Start
Jan 2001	Construction Start
Jun 2002	Target Completion
Last known status: Construction

Construction Cost:

$17,530,000

About These Cost Figures

Building Information

Project Includes:

Computers
Education
Education: Multimedia
Library

Total GSF:

98,000

Total NSF:

63,009

Efficiency:

64%

Building Population:

1200

People Density:

83 gsf/person

Building Services:

Fiber optic telecommunications backbone to CAT-7 local data distribution

Planning Module:

30' x 30'

Office Size:

100 NSF

HVAC Req:

1 cfm/gsf Expansion; 2 cfm/nsf Renovation

Structure/Foundation:

Cast-in-place architecture concrete, concrete sheawalls/mat footings, concrete moment frame/spread footings

Project Team

Architect

CO Architects

Consultant - Engineer

Ove Arup and Partners

Profile Created 03/31/2001

Last Updated 04/04/2006

About the Reported Cost Figures

The cost figures reported are supplied by the firms that submitted these projects for publication, which in most cases are the designers or builders. Whereas these sources are intimately familiar with their projects, they may not be fully aware of the owners' finally-realized and recorded costs. In some cases, costs are truly and completely accounted for, and in others they represent a near approximation of the final costs. Costs have not been adjusted for year of construction, nor has any attempt been made to make regional cost adjustments.

Further, costs are not comparable on any kind of detailed standard costing model. Hence, it is possible for the cost of one building to include a steam boiler, while the cost of a comparable building might not include the boiler, if steam is being supplied from an already existing campus grid. Or, in another case, a building might include excess boiler capacity to supply steam to another building. Some submittals include fees or unusual site improvements as part of the construction costs, which others do not.

Fig. 1

Library Exterior