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The new Yale University Music Library is a delicate
infill project, constructed within an existing courtyard of the massive,
gothic Sterling Memorial Library. In terms of number of books, Sterling
Memorial Library is the fourth largest library in the United States and
seventh largest library in the world. The new Music Library project coincided
with extensive renovations to Sterling Memorial Library itself.
The design for the Music Library utilizes extensive
clerestory windows atop the existing courtyard walls to provide generous
amounts of filtered natural light to the main floor Music Listening
Area and second level Reading Area below. Support functions, such as
meeting rooms, copy machines and circulation desk, while tucked beneath
the Reading Area, receive indirectly natural light from the glazing
that provides acoustical separation for the Music Listening Area.
This project won an American Institute of Architects,
Connecticut Chapter Design Award in the built projects category and
Regional International Illumination Design Award from the Illuminating
Engineering Society of North America.
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