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PERSPECTIVES

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Final sections and floor plan with section cuts shown. 

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CUSTOM FABRICATION LIGHTING (UPDATED)

Pendant lights 

1500 x 2200 (Max size)

1700 x 1600 (Medium size)

1900 x 1100 (Min size)

I have continued to develop my toadstool / mushroom pendant lights and have landed with this design. They come in 3 different sizes and 3 different colours and are made up of 4 key pieces; 

x1 exterior piece - frosted coloured glass in red, orange or blue

x1 interior piece - frosted white glass

x1 stem to attach the light to the ceiling, the lightbulb and cables run through this piece - dark green acetate

x1 lightbulb

These lights add the bright, fun, playful element that I think my design was previously missing. They are located in the former lecture hall space and take up the whole ceiling.

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FLOORING - SECOND ITERATION

With some help I have been able to achieve my desired aesthetic for my carpet. The variety of colours and levels make the carpet more tactile and adds more depth to the space. By mixing image textures, displacement maps and bump maps together I have been able to create the carpet for my library design.

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LIGHTING PLAN

Above is a lighting plan I did for my project. It uses a combination of ambient and feature lighting. The ambient lighting I have chosen is a simple recessed downlight, to be able to cast a strong steady amount of light onto the space while being discrete and hidden in the ceiling. 

The feature lighting is in the former lecture hall and in my case the feature is the lights, rather than the lights highlighting the feature. These lights are large pendant lights shaped like mushrooms and offer a diffused light onto the space, so they do not over light the room. 

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WALL SURFACE DESIGN

I have designed a wall pattern to be painted onto the majority of the walls in the Grey Lynn Public Library. It is a soft green colour so should come across very calming and should ground the space, while transferring my narrative of the enchanted forest onto the walls as well as being everywhere else. There are walls around the entrance and hold area that do  not have the pattern on them and are just soft green. 

I would like to keep some of the art that is currently in the library. The Grey Lynn Library painting (pictured above) adds a beautiful pop of colour and sums up the essential parts of Grey Lynn Library; children's story reading, holiday programmes, book delivery service, book loans, reading and work space, photocopier and noticeboards. 

There are murals painted by Murray Grimsdale originally in 1982 that I would love to include in my library design as they highlight the diverse cultures that we have in New Zealand and are a huge part of the history of the library, they would help blend the original library features with my new design. 

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UPDATED FLOOR PLAN

In response to my formative feedback I have changed a lot in the lecture hall space. The biggest change I have made is the layout of the tables. I have changed the four oval tables to four larger organically shaped tables and there is now a second admin desk in the lecture hall area, so staff is able to keep an eye on this space and assist if they are needed.

The second change I made was in response to the feedback I got about the stage area. I have changed the stage to individual meeting rooms that are closed off from the rest of the hall. The walls to these meeting rooms are frosted glass to allow light to enter into these spaces. 

The last big change I made to m y floor plan where the original kitchen was. I have put in tiered seating with three one person desks. This space can be used as a seat if you wish to sit on the stairs and read, or the tables are their if you wish to use your laptop or work on your own. 

ZONING KEY: 

RED: Loudest space

YELLOW: Loud space

GREEN: Quiet space

BLUE: Quietest space

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FORMATIVE FEEDBACK

Earlier this week I got some feedback on my formative assessment and got some notes on what was working with my design and what needs a little more thought or developing. 

Some of the things that I need to think through or develop more are: 

- Do the sound absorbing lights in the lecture hall work?

- What is going on the walls? its not clear at the moment

- Is the children’s area in the right place? Is it too close to the centre of the library? Is it going to be too noisy? If so, how are you going to block sound around children’s space?

- The lecture hall space needs a lot more developing

- Another desk for admin in the lecture hall? the library is a lot bigger now and there needs to be more space for admin.

- Is the communal space lacking narrative? It needs to feel more connected to the rest of the library, would another element of drama help?

- The stage space in the lecture hall very disjointed and doesn’t make sense with the rest of the design, you could possibly have private meeting / study rooms there instead?

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CUSTOM FABRICATION - LIGHTING

table lamp (fig. 2)

I wanted to design some task lighting for times of the day when sunlight is not sufficient. The table lamps that I have designed are inspired by blooming cacti (pictured in fig. 1). I would imagine having different sized lamps scattered around desks in clusters on two, three and four for variety and randomisation, as it would happen in nature. 

The green base is a matte ceramic and is rough to the touch, while the “flower” or lamp shade is frosted glass to dim the light emitting from the lamp. 

pendant light (fig. 4)

These pendant lights were designed to solve the problem of sound carrying between tables in the communal space. The pendants themselves are made out of a polyester felt which absorbs the sound and the shape of them helps with that as well. 

Each table in the communal space (former lecture hall) will have a light above it to light their work and help minimise sound carrying too far across the library. 

These lights were inspired by David Trubridge x PLN Groups “hush oval acoustic light” which I have linked below.

https://www.plngroup.co.nz/products/hush-oval

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FLOOR PLAN AND SECTIONS

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FLOORING - FIRST ITERATION

The flooring for my design is carpet. I wanted to create a longer pile dark green carpet to act like a mossy forest floor and runs the entirety of the library. 

fig. 1, 3 and 4 are Alexandra Kehayoglou’s work. 

This is my first attempt at modelling carpet. I am hoping to keep trying to achieve a denser carpet with more than one colour wool. I am going to have to shorten the length of the fibres as at the moment they are still too long and would be problematic for high traffic areas and accessibility as it could be considered a hazard at this length. 

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CUSTOM FABRICATION - 

WOODEN TREE SEAT / BOOK SHELF

5299 x 3200 

This design, inspired by the seat in the Turanga Library in Christchurch, is a wooden seat on one side and a bookshelf on the other to display featured books. 

I wanted this seat to be a large feature to go in the entry way in my library design, I wanted something that could be multi functional and would incorporate my narrative as well. 

Considering the amount of wood needed to fabricate this seat and the thickness of each piece, I would imagine this seat to be made out of a dark stained pine to match the rimu accents throughout the space, as it is easy to access and affordable. Each piece is fabricated separately, then attached to a central column (pictured in fig. 7)

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GROUP 10 TILE DESIGN - 

For our group piece of furniture, we chose to design a tile. An unlikely choice however one we found rather suited to all our designs and the Grey Lynn public Library.  The existing bathrooms are in a state of disrepair and therefore must be redesigned. We figured a tile would be a simple way to transform the rooms whilst pertaining not only to the 1920’s history of the building but also our own personal aesthetics. In this way we could design a sample for that can be coloured, finished and rearranged to fit each of our unique designs.  

We also believed the tile would be an interesting choice as bathrooms are often overlooked or considered at the last minute. By getting this over and done with at the beginning it would make our personal designs more detailed and well-considered  

A tile also fits within the sustainable design kaupapa that is an essential concept of Eva and Nikita’s design 

We like the idea of creating a single form that could be fabricated/orientated differently in each of our spaces. In this way it would be customisable and therefore be a unique feature in all our designs.