Student: Ramisa Rafi

The Digi Café + Library is a community-oriented public building proposal that reimagines the traditional library as a hybrid social, educational, and creative hub within the historic context of Main Street in Springville, New York. Blending the informal atmosphere of a café with the resources of a contemporary library, the project seeks to foster creativity, collaboration, and accessibility while strengthening the village’s civic life. Organized across multiple levels, the building integrates a café and general reading stacks on the ground floor, a lounge and makerspace above, and a community kitchen and event space below, allowing diverse programs to coexist while remaining visually and spatially connected. A rooftop community garden extends the building’s public mission outdoors, offering space for gathering, learning, and food cultivation. Through adaptive reuse, flexible programming, and an emphasis on inclusivity, the Digi Café + Library positions architecture as a social infrastructure—one that supports learning, making, and connection across generations while contributing to the evolving cultural identity of Springville