WAKE COUNTY WEST
REGIONAL LIBRARY
The Wake County West Regional Library is located at 4000 Louis
Stephens Drive in Cary, North Carolina. The 30,000
SF branch library is one of the largest in the state, serving
the high-growth western Wake County. Volumes of books
and reading material are housed in a series of separate
bearing masonry alcoves joined together by open, lofty
public areas. The bearing CMU walls are clad with veneer
brick in a cavity wall assembly. A ground-face CMU
is used for all exposed block so that the structural wall
also functions as an organic, inviting and maintainable
interior finish. The ‘Piedmont’ mix used
for the cmu includes aggregates of regional stone, honoring
the longtime farmland into which it anchors, even as the
region moves forward into a new era.
PROJECT TEAM
Architect: Clearscapes,
PA
Structural Consultant: Lysaght & Associates
Systems Consultant: HDM
Associates, Inc.
Landscape Consultant: McNeely
Associates, PA
General Contractor: J.D.
Beam, Inc.
Masonry Contractor: Mattachione Construction
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