Happy Holidays!

Happy Holidays!

From your

TEAM 8 Mentors

 

Please continue your research on libraries and post your ideas, sketches, articles, links & photos on the blog.

 

Our Next Meeting is scheduled for

Monday January 6, 2014

4 to 6 PM

 

at

 

DDC/SCA

30-30 Thomson Avenue

4th Floor Conference Room

 

See you here!

The New Elmhurst Branch Library Construction Field Visit

Snohetta Site Visit Photos and Notes

I hope all of you took notes.

This is one of the best visits.

 

 

 

SNOHETTA
Office Visit


Discussion Points

A Library is a place for people interaction.
Povides more social spaces.
Visibility
Yellow color indicates circulation and is visible throughout the space showing how to move through space.
Traditional spaces vs innovative spaces
A services desk is a simple vertical table.
Lots of displays
Stoa - Scrolls of history
Light vs Dark
Work with artists
Provide writeable surfaces so that the entire space is used.

Student Learning Center - Urban setting
People interaction
People / Books / Technology
The library is all about the people who use them
Its about a community not an institution
Design State of the Art / the Art Changes
Versatile and Flexible
Look for WOW Moments
Visual Games and Card Games for programming
Interaction by the clients
Section and adjacency

Lots of hand sketching
Model building
Quiet enclosed spaces
Congregation Area
Pictures of different environments to provide atmosphere for different spaces
Beaches / forrests / desert / oceans / garden
Tables for differnt areas

Far Rockaway -
Children's
Teen
Community Room
Adult Center

Pyramid of light
Lending desk located deep within to draw the public in.
No barriers
Night and day flow and glow

Bronx
Who uses the building?
Massing
Pedestrian usage - Transportation
Lot area - zoning
Pull structure away from sidewalk
Lower level ground has visibility
Upper level inverse with viewpoints / nooks
Facade studies

Visibility to the connection for the public transportation
Security - Enter at one location
Lifting and bridging

Regional images - Beautiful parts of the environments
Loose seating
Easy seating
Formal seating
Cyclical seating
Informal seating

Public / collaborative / partner / traditional / shares / future expansion

Lighting
Natural ventilation

65% 25% 15% Cost
5% 10% 85% Time
Pre Design Construction
Design

200,000 Sf
125,000 Sf
Automatic Retrieval system can be cost efficient
Reduce the facade
Structural
smaller buildings
reduced operating costs

 

Upcoming December 16th Meeting Location

 

 

Our Team 8 December 16th meeting

will be held at the

NEW ELMHURST BRANCH LIBRARY

86-01 Broadway at the corner of 51st Ave.

Queens, NY
We will meet in the construction trailer on 51st Ave at 4:00pm

If you plan to attend please notify Starlene by 5:00pm Thursday December 12.

PLEASE NOTE: This is an active construction site.  All attendees must submit a double sided Parental Permission Slip. Please wear hard shoe shoes and dress very warm.  The site is not enclosed.

Take the M or R train to Grand Ave. / Newtown Station
walk to Broadway then to the corner of 51st Ave (about 2 blocks.)

 

 

Here is the Hopstop Link:

http://www.hopstop.com/search?y1=&trip_type=1&time=63600&mode=s&thumbnailId2=fgddkd5s2gpi7hq6&x1=&interval2=3600&city2=newyork&day=3&county2=QUEENS%2c%20NY%2c%20USA&interval1=3600&county1=QUEENS%2c%20NY%2c%20USA&arrive_by=0&x2=&address2=86%2d01%20Broadway%2c%20Elmhurst%2c%20New%20York%2011373&city1=newyork&address1=30%2d30%20thomson%20ave&stop_count=2&y2=&action=search&input_pos=1

SAVE THE DATE!

ACE Team 8 next meeting will be held at DDC on January 6th.

Queens Village Library

The library I usually go to is the Queens Village library.

I like how the library is near my house and is easily accessible by public transportation. I also like how the surrounding grass and trees adds some color to the exterior. Another positive is how there is a kid's room inside separated with glass doors to lessen the sound.

I dislike how the exterior is very dull colored. The library's entrance looks uninviting. As for the inside, I dislike how there are only eight computers available and they are usually occupied. The library has few tables and seating for studying and reading. Another downside is that the library is not handicap accessible. Lastly, the library is closed on the weekend.

Jameson Wang

• Written by Michael Ding, For Jameson Wang because of technological problems
• 

• this is a library that is near where i live called the flushing library. in this library it contains approximately 300,000 books.  What I like about this library is that it is close to my house and its quiet inside and has sections of places for teens to be in.what i don't like about this place is that when i want to go find a seat at the third floor where its nice there isn't any seat left

corona 104street library

corona 104street have 35000 books

What i like about this library is that it next to p.s16, when i was in that school.It fast for me to go to the library.

What i dont like about this library is that it dont have books i want.

LandScape Info written by Michael Ding

• Through my research I've realized that when people think about using landscape to build a library, they always think about "green." As if nature is a must-have for landscape for a library. In some ways I agree with that and below are some landscapes I think would be nice for a library.
• 
• The landscapes above are the landscapes of the public libraries in Santa Monica. Original pictures posted by Peter Gisolfi. I believe these are the type of natural landscapes we expect to find when constructing a library. It is full of "green" and brings a sense of peace and unity when at a library.
• As much as I like nature, I don't like the fact that where there's trees and plants, there are bugs. Using pesticides aren't healthy so thats out of the question. Thus as society advance, the design of libraries should advance as well.
• 
• The library above is a library under construction downtown. I find this design quite intresting because of it's dome shape and a type of unique blend. We can see in the background tall buildings and skyscrapers and this dome-shaped library stands out among the bulding.
• Makng a library stand out among other buildings that should be a key factor as well.

• My opinion of the library near me.
• I live near east flushing library therefore thats the library I go to most of the time.
• I don't like how the libraries so small, and when I want a book, they normally don't have it.
• The bulding looks very old, basically said ugly. It looks like it's from the 1900's and im sure it is. Thus making it even less attracting. It's also near the high way and you hear noises you don't want to hear.
• 
• The only thing I like about the library is probably that it's near and a pretty cozy place if Im going to work there.

                               Thanks for Reading
                                          By Michael Ding along with his group members
                                           Jieke Huang, Junjie Kuang and Jameson Wang.

Upcoming December 9th Meeting Location Information

Our Team 8 December 9th meeting

will be held at the architecture office of

 

SNOHETTA

25 Broadway 2nd Floor

New York, NY 10004
We will meet in the lobby at 4:00pm

 

If you plan to attend please notify Starlene by 5:00pm Thursday December 5.

 

All attendees must submit a Parental Permission Slip.

 

Take the 4 or 5 Train to Bowling Green Station.

or

1 Train to Rector Street Station

or

J Train to Broad Street Station

or

R Train to Rector Street Station

or

R Trian to Whitehall Street Stations

 

 

Save the DATE!

Our December 16th Meeting will be a the New Elmhurst Branch Library, Queens.  If you plan to attend this field visit, please submit your double sided parental parental permission slip as soon as possible.  Check here regularly for more information.

the earth in flushing mid park

Library Ideas discussed - What is a library?

A holding area/storage
Dispensing of information
Digital technology and ease of use
Apple Store model
Children's area with LeapFrog
A quiet place to study
Public accessibility
Free WIFI
Free Workshop
Meeting area
Experiential
Download
Competition
Types of libraries (Film, Music, etc.)
Define needs of a community
Form can define content
FREE
Nice interior design
A comfortable place
A safe place
Organized
Encourages studying
Adaptive and flexible for the rapid evolution of technology

Please add more to this list.

Next Week December 2nd:  Please bring inmore ideas of what a library should be and provide a location for our REHAB project.  Post your ideas to the blog.

Hearst Tower

Landscape

Treehotel

The UFO is one of the rooms available at the Treehotel in Harads, Sweden.

Link to Treehotel website

Deep Sea Hotel

Cool thing.

Habitat 67.

Began as a thesis for modern-style living. In Montreal. Designed for Canada's World's Fair.

First Meeting Activity

The Sphere Exercise -
Team 8 was broken up into five groups. Each team member worked together for the first time to design a armature that would suspend a 6 inch sphere at least 3 inches off the ground by using up to 15 sheets of 8 1/2" x 11" size paper and Scotch Tape. Each team had 60 minutes to design and construct their structure. As time concluded, each team selected a Team Representative to present their finish product. In addition to presenting how the design evolved each team was required to describe what the intend use of the design would be.

NICE WORK EVERYONE!

Here are some photos of the teams in action: