ACE Final Presentation - SAVE the DATE!

Our Final Team 8 Presentation has been scheduled!

We will be presenting our Library project on

May 19th at the Center for Architecture. 

 

Our presentation will have a critique so we have to get ready. 

 

Family and friends are welcomed!

More details will follow!

The boards are off to DC!

Congratulations everyone!  Here are your Boards!

Team 8 has submitted an official entry to the 2014 CIRT/ACE National Design Competition.  This would not have been possible with out all of your tremendous creativity and effort. Your countless hours of hard work has truely delivered a wonderful presentation.  Thanks to all the mentors.  Now it is in the hands of the judges.  Good Luck! 

Library seating and furniture

 We offer a variety of areas—active and quiet, social and private—that encourage a range of experiences with multiple levels of challenge for different ages and abilities.   We provided a series of simple  yet interactive installations that will stand the test of time and can be enjoyed by all age groups. The seating and furniture selections provide enough complexity to engage children on more than one level,as well as adults.
Comfort in library furniture requires proper pitch and height of seating units, adequate area allowances of work 
surfaces, comfortable colors and light-reflecting qualities of top surfaces, and easy-moving working parts such as doors and drawers.

We believe that if you follow these design principles for library furniture, it will be possible to secure an atmosphere of comfort, wherein a love for reading can be readily cultivated.”

LEED Certification

This project utilizes a green design. Our design intent is to obtain Gold certification, based on the US Green Building Council LEED 2009 for New Construction and Major Renovations.

Sustainable Sites	12
Water Efficiency	7
Energy and Atmosphere	19
Material and Resources	7
Indoor Environmental Quality	11
Innovation and Design Process	6
Regional Priority	2
Total	64

Renderings

Structural

The library has many parts to it construction that needs to be done in order for it to be ensured that the building will stay up over a long period of time with no underlying large scale decay.The structure of the library uses a steel frame support system. The reason for this support system  is because steel is more of a light weight material easily able to build the library skeletal structure. The steel is also very flexible which makes it possible for any of the bends and curves that the library may require in order to make the library`s options of shapes increase. The steel is more shallower as opposed to concrete in building the structure of the library. The less spaces needed for the steel is used to provide more space in the library for the building designers(Architectures) to work with and the visitors of the library to enjoy. The steel is also more durable a substance as opposed to using concrete. There will be cracking and weathering to worry about with concrete but with steel the corrosion is not much of a problem if the steel is treated. The building does involves light weight concrete and metal slabs. These are used more for the interior and the base. Braced frames are used for the seismic area. Braced frames are a structural system that is used primarily for the resistance of wind as well as seismic activity and forces. The system is made to work in tension in addition to compression. This system is made for the fact that the area that the library is located in is a high seismic area meaning frequent earthquakes. The steel in the structure of the library is more able to adapt to the motions and tremors that are caused by the earthquake as opposed to concrete. There are V shaped columns constructed within the library that are also made of steel. The foundation is sitting on a fill. Due to the nature of the soil in the area it was decided to use a better grade of soil which will in turn increase the stability or solidity of the building`s underlying foundation that is going to be built on top. The slab is on grade. The slab is a large slab of mostly concrete that is used as the base or foundation of the building in order to make the ground floor. The on grade means that it will be built on top of the fill. The design loads are from ASCE-7 code book.
  

Before and after

The old Bryce Rathbun library is built in 2009.It has a volume of 7000 square feet. The standard of the people going in to the library is 680,000, but over the year there are only 106,083 people coming to the library. The literacy rate of Bakersfield California is the lowest in America. There are going to be changes to the old library, the new library will include the Asrs system,solar panels,Terracotta rain screens, and the cool roof system. These changes will make the new Bryce Rathbun library more attractive.