For my second transformative (re)vision for OMA's Seattle Public Library I wanted to make a marked difference in the functioning of the project team; in this case, questioning the utility of the transnational scale at which the design organization functioned seemed like the most decisive change. Rather than transforming the project by inserting new specialist firms into the organized assemblage, what if OMA had utilized the particular skills already present in the core local design team?
Magnusson Klemencic Associates' built portfolio is full of truss systems. Their deployment of this typology is a particularly engineered response to design problems; hybridizing this vernacular with the program-driven partí from OMA and its deformed skin allows for a new structural vocabulary to overtake the project, drawing attention to the complexity and differentiation of use which is generalized and obscured by the existing façade.
The new configuration is a combination of the existing façade detail plus a structurally continuous addition which allows the truss system inside the conditioned space of the building to hang from a mast outside. Magnusson Klemencic's skill as truss and tensile façade support is apparent in their built work and could be applied here without too much reworking.
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