Wells + Associates Studio

West Des Moines, Iowa

 

An existing 1970’s vintage public library was the departure point for this adaptive re-use project.  The space is approximately one half of the previous public library.  The windowless space had formerly housed a circulation desk and a stack area. 

 

The design is based programmatically upon the firm’s cultural expectations of open and informal communication as well as providing clients with a visual model of the firm’s communicative cultural, abilities in adaptive reuse, and design methodology based on simple expression of materials and their spatial relationships.