FINAL SUBMISSION

After some useful advice and suggestion from the pros, the library has been updated and the ESD principles included have been tweaked to better suit the climate and situation. Below is the finished presentation of the Torquay Senior School Library!

CAD it up!!

After working on and developing the concept sketches for the library i began to build a CAD model to get a better perswpective of how the building was developing. these CAD drawings were also a minimum requirement for the masterclass in which design professionals would provide feedback on our designs and ESD principles.

Development Continues

After the consultation, this is a new floor plan design which i came up with which is more suitable to a modern school.

P3 Library

After a consultation in the studio, it was the decided that the library i was designing so far was the typical library which i went to school in and not a library which was designed for 2020. With technology being a huge factor in schools and nearly every student working off laptops, with wireless technology, providing computers in a library was no longer necessary. With this in mind, the building has been shrunk and altered so that it is a more modern design. The spacial requirments now are:

• Books / collection
• Librarian
• Teaching Space
• Breakout spaces
• Cafe / gallery space
• Bathrooms

Schools now prefer to be more flexible so that rooms can be used for various activities. Hopefully the future design will reflect this and be a more modern design.

Project 3 Continues

Development of the initial sketches continued this week with more of the floor plan being experimented with to produce a layout.

Project 3 Torquay Library

After last weeks initial concepts sketches, the design has been further developed with slightly more detail and sections.

Project 3 - Library Initial Stages

Ultimately the function of a library is to be a place to source information however, social trends are changing especially in schools and the library is no longer seen as a place of quiet but rather networking and socialising. The following is a list of spacial requirements which should be incorporated into the library.

• Quiet reading area
• private study
• group work
• computers
• librarian office
• book / collection
• social / networking
• newspaper / magazine
• catalogue computers
• storage
• bathroom

After addressing these spacial requirements, some concept sketches were drawn up.

Project 3 Begins

After the completion of the master plan, we chose a building each to design to make up the school community. The buildings which the group members choose were:

• Me - Library
• David - Administration
• DangDang - Theatre and music room
• Ping - general classroms and science labs
• Andrew - design tech and art room.

Our aim as a group is to design a group of building which fit together in the scheme of the school as well as being usable and sustainable.