What Team 8 Has experienced

Title: What Team 8 has Experienced

Throughout the past few months, our team learned several valuable life lessons. Lessons such as teamwork, technical skills and critical thinking.

To start off the project, team 8 divided into three groups: Architecture, Construction, and engineering. Each group was given responsibilities and tasks to be accomplished. Strong teamwork was established through the works of RFI (Request for Information) and individuals making up for what others lack (such as knowledge in different fields.)

Additionally our team gained insight on the fields of architecture, construction and engineering through field visits and the expertise from the team mentors. Our mentors provided valuable expertise to help our design challenges. Some field visits we have done are the visit to Snohetta to learn about the architectural field. They specialized in the usage of wide open spaces in their libraries to attract people around it, thus we thought of using that too for our renovation. As for construction, we visited the offices of structure tone and the construction site of Elmhurst Library. The visits gave us an idea of how to design the structure for our library. In addition Sergio Silviera provided us with valuable engineering information on how to attract people to libraries through the use of luring materials such as glass.

One of the most important lessons we learned was problem solving. Some problems we faced: how to expand the current library to the required size, who and where to gather and organize information. In the end, through research and critical thinking as a group we were able to come up with solutions to our project.


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From Michael Ding, Brandon and Carina Acosta

Site Selection

Reading is one of the important building blocks to shaping our future. The town of Bakersfield, California has the lowest literacy rate in America. Our objective in renovating the Rathbun Branch library was to attract more of the community. We also wanted to provide them with a more enjoyable place to read, and more access to reading material. The current library contains 7,000 square feet, while the renovated building will be increased to 33,000 square feet. In order to meet the needs of the future population (based on the 2020 Kern County master plan) the library needs to expand to at least four times its current size. We acquired the adjacent land next to the parking lot for current parking with additional spaces.

Nicole, Nancy, Leo

Building Information Modeling (BIM) Examples

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Building Materials Overview

Roof

After researching a variety of different roofing types the team selected a roofing membrane made up of several layers including a liquid applied waterproofing, drainage mat, filter fabric, and ballast. The color is a light color ballast which helps reduce the heat island effect. It is  directly adhered to the structural slab.

Concrete

Our team realixed that concrete was the ideal choice for several conditions. In addition to the steel reinforced concrete gradebeams and spreadfootings for our foundations,we used 4" thick poured concrete over a 6" thick foundationfor all sidewalks.

The exterior stone walking surface is made up of granite stone slabs, while the exterior wall and canopy are made with pressed precast concrete panels in rain-screen cavity wall assembly, and an anti-graffiti coating.

Glazing

 The team selected variety of different glazing types to meet the needs of our renovated library. Throughout the exterior skin of the building our curtain wall on the first and second wall utilized an insulated glazing unit assembly made up of an outer lite of ¼” heat strengthened glass ; 0.06" polyvinyl butyral interlayer sandwiched with another ¼” heat strengthened glass followed by ½” air gap and an inner lite made up of a single 3/8” heat strengthened  tempered piece of glass. All exterior glass has a costume color digital printed ceramic frit on its surface along with a Low-E coating. Our skylight uses the same IGU assembly.

For interior windows the team used a laminated glass assembly featuring a 0.06" polyvinyl butyral interlayer sandwich between two ¼” thick heat strengthened pieces of glass.  

The spandrel/ opaque  glass panels assemblies are to match with the insulated glazing unit.

Landscape

The planting beds are Gallum ordatum and sweet woodruff. 

Metals

The enameled steel are heavy galvanized enameled steel sheets which go behind the main information and circulation desk.

Ceilings

We have variety types of ceiling for this project. In the readings acoustic wood fiber panels 2” thick, 2’-3/4” by 12’ were used in other areas such as the meeting room we used 2’ by 4’ acoustical square tiles on exposed tee grid in other area we suspened 5/8” gypsum wall board. In areas such as the mechanical room we exposed the underside of the structural slab.
  

Flooring

For the different types of spaces the team used several different types of flooring. These different types of flooring were selected.The cafe and elevators have rubber flooring while kids and teen room has carpets.

Foundation Plan

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