Hercules Library

The City of Hercules' main library is a structure of complex angles and shapes beginning with an asymmetric butterfly roof that rises to a tall wall fronting the main street at the city's civic center entrance. At the center of the building is an elliptical sky garden courtyard which is rotated and skewed relative to the surrounding roof. Interior courtyard walls rise above the sky garden glazing and surround the courtyard, forming an inverted interior cone. The conical theme continues outside with a children's story telling room set within a connected freestanding 30 foot tall conical tower capped with a tilted elliptical skylight.

 

Completed by Doug Robertson as Principal with Umerani Associates