Convex
Community Library in Brooklyn
Status: Concept
Instructor: Gordon Kipping
Instructor: Gordon Kipping
What should a library be in the contemporary world to satisfy the demand and follow the trend of the increasing usage of technology equipment in a library? The answer may be given enough space for both the innovative part and the traditional part of a library and trying to generate an inner connection between each of them. Therefore in this project, there are firstly two parts with equal dimensions but different organization and spatial division. By using a relatively domestic scale there is a kind of a group of smaller spaces is created.
They are separated and connected by a half-height floor shift to hold different types of activities on different topics. There are always innovative and traditional parts on one floor so there is always an opportunity to allow people to experience both the spaces
They are separated and connected by a half-height floor shift to hold different types of activities on different topics. There are always innovative and traditional parts on one floor so there is always an opportunity to allow people to experience both the spaces
Concept Diagram
Early sketch shows the concept of using circulation core to form spaces
Concept Model
The early study model shows the spatial organization of the project. Simple cube units generate a complex group of public-private spaces.
Form Generation
Program Distribution
Sectional Relationship
A series of elevations and sections demonstrate the intimacy and publicity of the interior space facilitated by the unique circulation consideration.
Volume and Space
The building takes the domesticity quality from the Brooklyn neighborhood and makes the interior spaces different than those giant open office tower space in Manhattan across the river.
The building takes the domesticity quality from the Brooklyn neighborhood and makes the interior spaces different than those giant open office tower space in Manhattan across the river.
