The Children’s Room is designed to set young minds soaring.
With a wide variety of programs and events open to all children, this area is one of the busiest places in the Library.
The outdoor Reading Garden has three main features:
A portion of the roof is planted with succulents…the first innovative garden roof for a San Diego Library. Tiny succulent plants were grown in trays for six months before being transplanted onto the roof. Besides the intrinsic beauty of design, the planted roof absorbs heat from the roof and insulates the building, reducing air conditioning costs. Additionally, the eco-roof creates a new wildlife habitat for birds.
The roof is starting to fill in…
The Visual Garden, located on the north side of the building at the corner of Mission and Alvarado, includes the Owl sculpture and the Time Capsule buried on the day of the Grand Opening, January 22, 2011.
The fence and gate for the garden needed to be a planar “field” of imagery, and the artist chose flat leaf and avocado shapes, as if one was looking through a canopy of an avocado grove.
This is a familiar sight to most people who know Fallbrook, and satisfied the structural and safety requirements for a functional barrier. The work is cut from steel, stretching slightly over 10 feet from end to end, with an (approx.) 3′ gate included.
The finish is a rust color, complementing the colors chosen for the building, and makes a lovely silhouette of space and steel shape.
The design for “Turning Page Trellis” was inspired by one of the most achingly beautiful lines with which everyone is familiar — that iconic line formed, when a book lays open, by the drape of a page; so sweetly evocative of everything associated with civilization and society, with both tradition and with change. An elegant and elemental line that calls to mind the wonder and growth we find in each new chapter of our lives.
We look to literature, to books, to travel in time, to connect with our past and imagine the future. To find our place, to learn a skill, to make ourselves anew…
Libraries are the places where minds meet, where the experiences and expressions of other’s become our own. The turn of a page holds so much promise, so much mystery… What shall we learn? Who shall we become?
