University of Missouri Kansas City Miller Nichols Library
The original Miller Nichols Library was a closed, fortress-like structure typical of the Brutalist architectural style of the 1960s. Sasaki’s phased addition to and redesign of the building inverts this image—solids become voids, and voids become solids. A dense central core of book stacks is transferred to a new wing holding an advanced Automatic Storage and Retrieval System (ASRS). The former stack space was freed for renovation into hundreds of study seats in a wide variety of configurations—private, group study, and impromptu student/teacher collaborations. To the west, the new, contiguous academic building has carefully modulated large and small classroom areas, multiple light-filled atria and other spaces to make it the new social center of campus.
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