Final Review - April 23, 2007

Renders of Bowery Library

Program + System

User Information Diagrams

One Installment = 5 Minutes

User 1 – College Student

1. Lobby – Entrance / cafe

2. Lobby – Café (purchasing coffee)

3. Stacks / book archives – searching through database

4. Stacks / book archives – walking to section for specific topic. Searching for books

5, 6. Stacks / book archives – Searching for books

7. Stacks / book archives – Searching for books. Finding books. Walking towards check-out

8. Lobby – Check out counter with books to borrow.

9. Lobby - Exit

User 2 – Tourist

1. Lobby – Entrance / Cafe

2. Lobby – Café

3. Lobby – Auditorium checked out lecture during the day.

4-8. Lobby - Auditorium

9. Lobby – Art Gallery, new exhibit of local art.

10-15. Lobby – Art Gallery

16. Lobby – Information Desk, picked up map of library.

17. Stacks / Book archives – walked around different sections of library

18-20. Stacks / Book archives - Browsing

21. Stacks / Book archives – Reading area – Resting Legs

22. Stacks / Book archives – Reading area

23. Lobby – Check out area

24. Exit

User 3 – Local Resident

1. Lobby – Entrance / check in area

2. Lobby – Check in area, returns book

3. Stacks / book archives – Searches for books to read

4. Stacks / book archives – Searches for books.

5. Stacks / book archives – Searches for books. / Finds books

6-31. Stacks / book archives – Reading area

32-38. Stacks / book archives – Bathroom

39. Stacks / book archives – Puts back book. Goes back to Reading area

40-57. Stacks / book archives – Reading area

58. Stacks / book archives – Puts back remaining books to discard from selections.

59. Lobby – Check out with books to borrow.

60. Exit

Program

Public Library Space

Reading Space - 3,000 sf
Book/Stacks Archive - 8,000 sf
Auditorium - 3,000 sf


Service Library Space

Entry and Circulation Desk - 1,000 sf
Staff offices - 1,000 sf
Lavatories - 1,000 sf
MEP Space - 1,000 sf
Circulation - 2,000 sf


Outdoor Public Space (at street) 750-1,000 sf

Developable Ideas for Library

Library Ideas

• Transportation Access
• Bikes
• Cars
• Walking

• Interaction w/ Community
• Art Gallery
• Auditorium
• Historical Info of Site and Bowery
• Café
• Courtyard
• Observatory

• Public vs. Private
• Open / Closed Spaces
• Reading / Research
• Classrooms / Lobby or Meeting Area

• Filtered Chambers of Information
• Starting Point ---> Destination
• Determine Way to Search for Books, Media, etc.

• Forms of Information
• Computers
• Internet
• Books
• Visual Media

• Natural vs. Artificial Light
• Reading / Classroom / Meeting Area

• Presentation
• Information Open from All Angles
• Layering (Overlapping) of Information
• Easy Access into Library
• Expansion / Compression of Spaces
• Rhythmical Flow of Spaces
• Loops
• Dead Ends
• Merging
• Stretching
• Dividing

Midterm Review - 3/8/07