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Project: Double-Negative Professor: Lisa Iwamoto Concept: Topography + Verticality + Spatiality. The vertical movement through a series of stairs as a space generator.
Double Negative: Initial Conceptual Montage
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A GRASSHOPPER DEFINITION
Plan 3 Grasshopper definition B G
3D diagram
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K Double Negative: Sections, plans, diagrams
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2 Ply Chipboard Laser Cut + Lamination
Plan view
Plan view
Detail
Perspective
Detail
Double Negative: Physical Model
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Project: Potrero Hill Branch Library, San Francisco Professor: Lisa Iwamoto Concept: The integration of circulation and shelving to create a spatial experience in direct connection to books. A system of ribs, from the site analysis, consistute roofing and circulation, moving over and through the solid core of bookshelves.
4000 sqf 1000 sqf 800 sqf 600 sqf 400 sqf 200 sqf
Project receieved the 2011 Honor Award at UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design exhibition “Berkeley Circus”
BOOK DISPLAY REFERENCE AREA ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE COMMUNITY MEETING RM. 600 sqf YOUNG ADULT 800 sqf CATALOGUE 800 sqf VIEWING 800 sqf
CHILDREN READING
SHELVING
SHELVING
READING
SOCIAL SPACE
CIRCULATION
Potrero Hill Library: Perspective on 20th Street/Diagrams
Grid north/south
Pinch lines step 2
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Paths of movement across site
Site model 1/8" cardboard
Overlay of systems
Pinched lines at the junctions of paths
Formal logic
SITE ANALYSIS Potrero Hill Library: Site Analysis + Site Model
UC Berkeley 2010-2011 BOOKS BUILD THIS LIBRARY
RIBS AS FORMAL LOGIC
VERTICAL CIRCULATION
VERTICAL SPATIALITY
Potrero Hill Library: Interior view + early sketches
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Connecticut Street
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REFERENCE -6'
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CATALOGUE/ COMPUTER +6'
ELEVATOR
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CHILDRENS READING
ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE
STAFF
CIRCULATION
STREET LEVEL PLAN 1/16" = 1'
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MAIN ENTRANCE +0'
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STORAGE
COMMUNITY MEETING
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PLAN -2 1/16" = 1'
20th Street
browsing the web
reading “Barnaby Rudge”
genealogy on the microfiche reading + making notes
browsing articles for catalogue history research search paper
reading latest music magazine
reference for Charles Dickens bibliography
playing + running + reading 60-75 40-60 20-30 13-19
shelving + reading
circulation + catalogue
shelving + reading
0-12
SECTION C 1/32" = 1'
SECTION E 1/32" = 1'
PROGRAMMATIC SECTION Potrero Hill Library: Plans, Sections
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12am
1pm
3pm
YRARBIL LLIH ORERTOP
SECTION A 1/16" = 1'
SECTION B 1/16" = 1'
SECTION B 1/16" = 1' Potrero Hill Library: Sections, Sun Diagram
UC Berkeley 2010-2011 REFERENCE
MAIN STACK
YOUNG ADULT/LECTURE
BOOK DISPLAY
PLAN -1 1/16" = 1' Night Perspective 20th St
YOUNG ADULT
PLAN +1 1/16" = 1'
PLAN +2 1/16" = 1' Night Perspective Connecticut St
Potrero Hill Library: Plans, Night Perspective
UC Berkeley 2010-2011 Potrero Hill Library: Physical Model Iterations 1/8"
UC Berkeley 2010-2011 Potrero Hill Library: Interior view