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