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Clifton Library by Gilbert

Site Plan
Site Context
2D and 3D Parti
Program Detail
Ground Floor on Howe Ave. level. Staff parking, Shipping and Delivery and Mechanical equipment rooms.
Main Floor busiest floor where most communal activities take place but a less active reading spaces.
More quiet and a less active environment than the plaza floor.
For the avid, readers who want a quiet environment or would prefer to enjoy fresh air while reading; this is where it’s at.
Plants on roof! Read , walk, relax and enjoy the ludlow view while you are at it!
Section(West to East)
Section(South to North)
North from Plaza.
East From Parking.
Reading area
Entrance Lobby
Refreshment bar

Book store with book pod on the right for “grab a book, leave a book”.
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Clifton Young Adult Library

My concept is about distant connection. To be a community, we do not have to be side by side to make valuable connections. I represented this through the spaces in my building by placing similar spaces on different floors. This allows all types of people to make random connections throughout the entire space. This concept extends from the concept of my Clifton Plaza of bringing people together from different backgrounds and cultures in the Clifton community. It is also inspired by my precedent library, Carré D’art and its heavy use of glass and connecting different spaces. I want my space to act as a place for people to gather and make connections, as well as be a space for people to work, create and learn.

  • Carre D’art Norman Foster Precedent Reference
  • Black and White Axon View
  • Site View
  • Lower Level Floor Plan
  • Howell Ave. Floor Plan
  • Clifton Plaza Floor Plan
  • Fourth Level Floor Plan
  • North to South Section
  • East to West Section
  • West to East Section
  • South to North Section
  • East Facing Elevation
  • North Facing Elevation
  • South Facing Elevation
  • West Facing Elevation
  • Materials
  • Organization of Spaces
  • 3D Massing
  • 3D Massing
  • 2D Massing
  • 2D Massing
  • Cafe/ Bookstore
  • Third Level Patio
  • Third Floor Reading Room
  • Howell Level Interior Entrance
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Clifton Library // Kassi McGuire

Concept

I wanted to incorporate my Clifton Plaza concept into my Clifton Library. My concept is connections, connecting Howell Ave to Ludlow Ave. I thought of triangles and how they connect. So throughout my design there are different aspects of my concept.

Site Plan

Plans

  • Howell Level
  • Plaza Level
  • Level 3

Sections

  • East facing Section
  • North facing Section

Elevations

  • East Elevation
  • West Elevation
  • North Elevation
  • South Elevation

Vignettes

Interior Perspectives

Exterior Perspectives

Diagrams

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Floor Plans

Concept Statement

When approaching this project, I began by considering how the design could connect Clifton Plaza with Howell Street. In order to create a fluid path, I decided on the diagonally split form. The trapezoid shape of the two components reference my Clifton Plaza design. I wanted the plaza to flow into the library with the continuation of green space on the second level. The individual skylight components came out of the desire for each room to be comfortable and desirable for the inhabitants. The most public program elements are placed on the outside of the building and I tried to delineate each element in the East facade making them easier to identify from the outside.

Site Plan

Floor Plans

Sections

Elevations

  • Program Elements
  • Circulation
  • Materials Diagram
  • Plaza View
  • Fourth Floor Balcony
  • Auditorium
  • Entrance
  • Third Floor Reading
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Clifton Library-Jieping Song

Overview of Clifton Plaza
Beginning Process
Site Plan: 1”=30′
Floorplans
Floorplan
Circulation Diagram
Sections
Elevation
West Façade
East Façade
From Plaza View
View from the Howell Avenue
Material Board
Interiors on F3&F4
F3-F4 Experience View
Walking on the stairs to F4
Interiors
Big Bookshelf Wall
Looking up from F3
View from F4 to F3


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CLIFTON LIBRARY: HANNAH MAULE

SHOWCASES THE INTEGRATION OF THE NATURAL ENVIRONMENT INTO THE BUILT ENVIRONMENT WITHIN AN URBAN CONTEXT ALLOWING SPACES AND EXPERIENCES TO BE DEFINED BY THE LANDSCAPE, FORM, AND STRUCTURE.

PARTI DIAGRAM

STRUCTURE AND ORGANIZATION DIAGRAM

STRUCTURE AND SITE INTEGRATION DIAGRAM

MOVEMENT ACROSS SITE + RELATIONSHIP TO SURROUNDINGS

PATH DIAGRAM

FACADE ORGANIZATION DIAGRAM

– FACADE BROKEN INTO THIRDS – NORTH AND SOUTH STRUCTURE WITH CONNECTING CORE STRUCTURE.
-NATURAL LIGHT EXPOSURE – MIRRORED ON EAST

LIBRARY ELEVATIONS

  • NORTH ELEVATION
  • SOUTH ELEVATION
  • EAST ELEVATION
  • WEST ELEVATION

PLANS

  • PARKING GARAGE
  • FIRST FLOOR
  • SECOND FLOOR
  • THIRD FLOOR
  • FOURTH FLOOR

SECTIONS

  • LONGITUDINAL
  • TRANSVERSE

AXON WITH CONTEXT

SITE PLAN

EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVES

NORTH FACE FROM LUDLOW AVENUE
SOUTH FACE FROM HOWELL STREET

INTERIOR PERSPECTIVES

GRAPHIC VIGNETTES

ADDITIONAL EXTERIOR PERSPECTIVES

  • NORTH
  • SOUTH

THANK YOU

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Clifton Young Adult Library Emma Sander


My Library design is based off of the idea of an interlocking puzzle with each floor being able to connect to the floor above and below it. I tired to emulate my plaza concept of fluidity between the plaza and the community into my library by keeping the same organic curved shape and allowing it to flow into the library. I was really inspired by the Children’s library in Shanghai and different landscape architects that play with contrasting materials and voids. The overlapping looks that makes the puzzle pieces is represented through the floors that allow the user to experience multiple levels.
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Clifton Young Adult Library

Roof Garden Vignette

Concept

Libraries have always been public spaces of learning, facilitating multiple forms of education, either oral or written knowledge. Going back to the earliest libraries in Athens and Alexandria, libraries have always been spaces that communities went to to join in debate, educated discussion and collaboration. Somewhere along the way, this idea has been lost. Libraries have shifted to individual learning, primarily focused on written knowledge and individual learning. Through the use of Neoclassical proportioning and borrowing from classic sequencing of space and axes this design aims to create a classical library for the modern age.

During the initial stages of the design process, I started by looking to famous library architect, Henri Labrouste. Borrowing from his Bibliotheque Nationale de France, in Paris, my design follows his classic sequences of space. In Labrouste’s Library, one enters through an open courtyard or green space flanked by administrative spaces, which then leads to a series of vestibules that open up to the different programatic spaces of the structure. However following the central axis of the space one would be lead into the large reading room, behind which would reside the majority of the book stacks accessible only by the staff. This design proposal for the Clifton Young Adult Library follows an abstracted version of this sequence with a focus on axes.

Elevations

  • West Elevation
  • South Elevation
  • North Elevation
  • East Elevation

Plans

  • Parking Floor Plan
  • Ground Floor Plan
  • First Floor Plan (Plaza Level)
  • Second Floor Plan
  • Third Floor Plan
  • Fourth Floor Plan
  • Loft Plan
  • Site Plan

Sections

  • Transverse Section
  • Longitudinal Section

Perspectives

  • Howell Perspective
  • Terrace Perspective
  • Atrium Perspective
  • Formal Reading Room Perspective
  • Ludlow Perspective

Diagrams

  • Structure Diagram
  • Public Thoroughfare Diagram
  • Concept/Parti Diagram
Children’s Reading Loft Vignette