Alpharetta Library
Work completed at Cooper Carry
The new Alpharetta Library is part of a larger 22 acre redevelopment of the Alpharetta Town Center. The new town center’s landscape design (designed by others) is of a very strong beaux arts tradition in design. With a direct connection to this landscape the landscape design of the new library is inspired by the modernist movement to create a dialogue and juxtaposition in form with the landscape to it north.
The beaux arts landscape, while beautiful, is not a native centric landscape. The library reacts to this by demonstrating a botanical garden of native landscape plants to contrast its neighboring design and bring awareness of native plant material to the public. Sustainability and the natural environment are the vanguard of the landscape design at the new Alpharetta Library.
All avenues have been exhausted to preserve existing trees on site and sustainable stormwater practices are utilized. The plan is intended to be a naturalized landscape that can be utilized by the library patrons as an alternative space of reflection, as well as creating an educational outdoor classroom through the creation of a mound that will act as seating and small amphitheater space.
