Ginsburg Health Sciences Library - Kelly Maiello Architects

Client

Temple University

Category

Education, Healthcare

is located at the corner of Broad and Tioga Streets in the Lewis Katz School of Medicine Medical Education and Research Building on Temple’s Health Sciences campus. The collective project goals of the medical school librarian, staff, and faculty were to create an open access library that would provide research and learning services to students, researchers, scholars, and neighbors.

Kelly Maiello was responsible for interior design of the 45,600-square-foot building, which is enclosed by a three-story glass curtainwall. Our approach incorporated various program elements essential to a major academic library: a welcoming public entrance lobby, intuitive digital technology, specialized learning environments tailored to individual and small group learning, administrative offices and support spaces. The common spaces were designed like living rooms to encourage collaborative work and socializing, with furniture conducive to relaxation and/or work. Glass-walled study rooms provide a quieter option.

A spacious, modern library designed by a renowned architect with large windows, blue armchairs, round tables, individual study desks, and people reading or working on laptops. Natural light floods the open, airy civic interior. Architectural floor plan crafted by an architect, showing rooms filled with tables and chairs, circular and rectangular seating areas, hallways, entrances, and labeled streets: Tioga Street and Broad Street. A striking spiral staircase with metal railings and wooden handrails, designed by a Philadelphia architect, encircles a cozy seating area with four blue chairs and a round table; two people in blue and red ascend and descend the stairs. A modern glass and brick educational building stands along a sunny sidewalk, where several people are walking and gathering outside. The sky is clear and blue, and small trees line the street.

Photo/Image Credits: Jeffrey Totaro