Architect：Tappé Architects Imrey Studio
Location：Edgartown, Massachusetts, USA
Project Year：2016
Category：Libraries
The Edgartown Public Library was designed to meet the unique challenges of its location on Martha’s Vineyard off the coast of Massachusetts, with Category 5 hurricane resistance and summer vacation population surges that increase library activities tenfold.
Located on a property contiguous with an elementary school, the library is also configured to accept a daily influx into children’s and teens spaces during the off-season/school year. Additionally, the community meeting room doubles as an art gallery for one of the most important historical book and painting collections on the island.
The library is organized in three wings: a children’s wing, a gallery/meeting wing, and a two-story adult service wing. Each wing of the crisp building features signature “lighthouse” clerestories and soaring interior spaces that bring daylight deep into the interior volumes.
In Edgartown, where widow’s walks and lighthouses abound, the design took cues from the local architecture to inform the overall massing and design. To achieve simultaneous “uplift” and “anchor,” the building combines a solid brick perimeter with tall windows in addition to the wrap-around clerestories.
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