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