Gahanna Library
Columbus OH
Completed 2023
The Columbus Metropolitan Library’s new Gahanna branch represents a step forward for a community nurturing new development at its civic core, envisioning its growth, and bringing an urban mentality to a new generation of customers. It aims at manifesting all of the positive things that library design can bring to enrich our communities – learning, socialization, respite, nature, and self-fulfillment.
Stemming from the Algonquian word that means “three into one,” Gahanna gets its name from being the location where Alum Creek, Blacklick Creek, and Big Walnut Creek converge. Additionally, as Gahanna celebrates its stylistic and demographic diversity, the architectural concept is rooted in capturing a larger sentiment of convergence in its form and site disposition as well.
The massing evokes convergence by implementing three ‘bars’ of varying scales and lengths that are joined in their breadth. In doing so, the building satisfies the functional need while creating a more humane scale of spaces, and addresses a more rhythmic cadence / urban disposition at the entry and street.
Gahanna CML
Gahanna OH
Completed 2023
Daniel Yontz
Selected Projects Completed at Various Architectural Firms
daniel.yontz@gmail.com
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Design
The complete buildings, projects, or design work were the product of collective work from many people, however, all booklets, sketches and the website were of my own making.
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