Alicia Heinsen
Becker Raab
Ben Poulin
Beth Emig
Jason Chmura
Jessica Mangin
Kyle Rendall
Matthew McChesney
Mayva Donnon
Merilee Meacock
Michael Shatken
Petar Mattioni
Scot MurdochThe Star-Ledger recently featured the Research and Collections Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), a high-density, environmentally-controlled library storage facility KSS Architects helped design. The facility, located on Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J., houses rare and valuable books for Princeton University, Columbia University and the New York Public Library.
The facility consists of five refrigerated modules totaling 85,000 sf with a capacity of 10 million library items. To meet the technical and protection requirements for the books, KSS and their consultants designed each module with temperature and humidity monitoring systems and load-bearing, maximum foreseeable loss (MFL) walls to withstand extreme conditions such as fire. The fifth module, which was completed in the summer of 2008, will eventually use solar energy to help supply the power demands of the high-tech facility.
The Star-Ledger recently featured the Research and Collections Preservation Consortium (ReCAP), a high-density, environmentally-controlled library storage facility KSS Architects helped design. The facility, located on Forrestal Campus in Plainsboro, N.J., houses rare and valuable books for Princeton University, Columbia University and the New York Public Library.
The facility consists of five refrigerated modules totaling 85,000 sf with a capacity of 10 million library items. To meet the technical and protection requirements for the books, KSS and their consultants designed each module with temperature and humidity monitoring systems and load-bearing, maximum foreseeable loss (MFL) walls to withstand extreme conditions such as fire. The fifth module, which was completed in the summer of 2008, will eventually use solar energy to help supply the power demands of the high-tech facility.
