Library Expansion & Renovation
Completion Date June 2002
Published March 2001
Santa Monica College's existing library serves as the central study space for the College. The building is a windowless concrete structure built in the 1970s, situated along the main campus mall, but has little connection to the existing campus. The library has reached its design capacity, cannot readily accommodate new computer technologies, and sustained damage in California's Northridge earthquake. The goals of the expansion and renovation are to incorporate the College's information technology master plan, accommodate increased demand for reader seats and stacks, provide natural light to all interior areas, connect the building to the main campus mall, and structurally strengthen the existing earthquake damaged library.
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.
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Santa Monica College |
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Owner Contact:
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Dr. Tom Donner, VP Business Affairs
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Building Location:
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Santa Monica, CA UNITED STATES
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Project Type:
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Expansion,Renovation
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Principal Building Function:
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Library |
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Project Timeline
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| Nov 1997 | Planning Start |
| Feb 1999 | Design Start |
| Jan 2001 | Construction Start |
| Jun 2002 | Target Completion |
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Last known status: Construction
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| Construction Cost: |
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$17,530,000 |
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About These Cost Figures
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Project Includes:
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Computers
Education
Education: Multimedia
Library
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| Total GSF: |
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98,000 |
| Total NSF: |
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63,009 |
| Efficiency: |
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64% |
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Building Population:
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1200
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People Density:
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83 gsf/person
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Building Services:
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Fiber optic telecommunications backbone to CAT-7 local data distribution
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Planning Module:
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30' x 30'
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Office Size:
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100 NSF
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HVAC Req:
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1 cfm/gsf Expansion; 2 cfm/nsf Renovation
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Structure/Foundation:
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Cast-in-place architecture concrete, concrete sheawalls/mat footings, concrete moment frame/spread footings
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Architect
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CO Architects
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| Profile Created 03/31/2001 |
| Last Updated 04/04/2006 |
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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.
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Library Exterior Photo courtesy of CO Architects Notes:
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