I wanted (and had to) at least post what I have already. I would like and am planning on adding more diagrams for each especially for the Boston Public Library. This is definitely a work in progress so please comment with ways it can improve or what I can add. I am going to add pages on why I have chosen these three libraries and why I like them as well.
You have chosen three very different and very complex examples and have analyzed them thoroughly. I like your circulation and uses diagrams as they present very well the complexity of a library program. I would recommend that you create another diagram that simply shows public and private spaces, which will help you clearly see how those relate and connect and how is access restricted from one area to the other (I noticed that you already made that distinction in your uses diagrams). I would also recommend that you go further into exploring the massing of the buildings and try to identify the main massing components and analyze their relationship. For example the Boston Public Library may look like a big box, but the interior courtyard and main reading hall brake the overall mass and create a much more complex shape. Analyze the way spaces connect to each other, physically through corridors, as well as visually. For example a double height space may be accessible through a corridor on just one level but be visible through many points at different levels, as in the Masashino Library reading room.
These studies are fantastic, very clear, easy to read and bold with color. I agree with Elena in looking more closely at the public and private spaces as a separate study. You could also add circulation to that, it might bring to light some reasoning for why the circulation is the way it is.
They are very different studies, and as you continue to analyze them, see how their concepts manifest (i.e. the spiral, etc). How is a concept carried through a project quite literally in the architecture versus suggestively such as in circulation, public versus private, etc. Eventually this can inform how to see your concept through in your own project.
I wanted (and had to) at least post what I have already. I would like and am planning on adding more diagrams for each especially for the Boston Public Library. This is definitely a work in progress so please comment with ways it can improve or what I can add. I am going to add pages on why I have chosen these three libraries and why I like them as well.
ReplyDeleteThese are great diagrams. I would also look at the Seattle Public Library by Rem koolhaas and Louis Kahn's Exeter Library.
ReplyDeleteYou have chosen three very different and very complex examples and have analyzed them thoroughly. I like your circulation and uses diagrams as they present very well the complexity of a library program. I would recommend that you create another diagram that simply shows public and private spaces, which will help you clearly see how those relate and connect and how is access restricted from one area to the other (I noticed that you already made that distinction in your uses diagrams). I would also recommend that you go further into exploring the massing of the buildings and try to identify the main massing components and analyze their relationship. For example the Boston Public Library may look like a big box, but the interior courtyard and main reading hall brake the overall mass and create a much more complex shape. Analyze the way spaces connect to each other, physically through corridors, as well as visually. For example a double height space may be accessible through a corridor on just one level but be visible through many points at different levels, as in the Masashino Library reading room.
ReplyDeleteThese studies are fantastic, very clear, easy to read and bold with color. I agree with Elena in looking more closely at the public and private spaces as a separate study. You could also add circulation to that, it might bring to light some reasoning for why the circulation is the way it is.
ReplyDeleteThey are very different studies, and as you continue to analyze them, see how their concepts manifest (i.e. the spiral, etc). How is a concept carried through a project quite literally in the architecture versus suggestively such as in circulation, public versus private, etc. Eventually this can inform how to see your concept through in your own project.