Children Reading Corner
Fianl Design Plans Robert Eastman Johnson Yilin Li Santa Maria Community Service
Contents
• Introduction..........................................................1 • Interior Measurements.........................................2 • Pictures of Existing................................................3 • Plan 1.....................................................................5 • Plan 2.....................................................................6 • Plan 3.....................................................................7 • Art Theme 1...........................................................8 • Art Theme 2...........................................................9 • Art Theme 3..........................................................10 • Furniture Reference.............................................11 • Art Implementation.............................................15 • Contact Information...........................................16
Initiation
In order to encourage Children Literacy of the new immigrants’ family, Santa Maria Community Service Center is seeking to provide a kids reading room in the office building. The Santa Maria Community Service Wellness Center is located 3310 Warsaw Avenue, East Price Hill. The community has a tradition being the entry port of Central American immigrants. Unfortunately, a lot of these new families came from the rural area of their country with very limited literacy of English, or their own language. With the International Welcome Center of the community coming into the building, the organization is seeking to convert half of the office to a kids reading corner. The intention is to encourage children to read or create images while they are waiting for their parents and introduce Literacy to the new comers. Considering the age and background of potential users, the team is looking to insert some of the Central American elements into the art themes while being children-friendly. The total available budget will be $1,000 dollars, including purchases of new furniture and painting materials for the interior art implementation. The organization is looking to building the reading corner by community volunteer projects.
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Interior Measurements Window
3’2”
6’8”
Ethernet Cords Outlet
6” Vent
1’5” Door
4’
10’ 14’
4’
8’10”
7’
1” 7’ 7.5’ 1’ 1”
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Pictures of Existing
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Pictures of Existing KIDS CHAIR • • • •
Width: 10 1/8” Depth: 11” Height: 17” Existing
BOOKSHELF • • • •
Width: 30” Depth: 10 1/4” Height: 36” Existing
The team has suspected existing furniture that has an interesting art taste and can be used as furniture in the proposed plans. Furthermore, the team decided to encourage building more of these furniture using the exact same size and appearance for the purpose of consistency and cost cutting.
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Plan 1 Furnitures Included: • Attached to Wall Bookshelves: 8’3” • Kids Chairs : 6 • Large Picture Frame: 1 • Small Picture Frames: 6 • Kids Desk Board: 11’ • Bookshelves: 2 • Large Storage Combination: 1 • Small Storage Combination: 1 • Coat Hooks: 2 Estimated Budget: $ 857.00
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Plan 2 Furnitures Included: • Kids Chairs : 2 • Corner Bookshelf: 1 • Large Picture Frames: 2 • Kids Desks: 2 • Bookshelves: 2 • Large Storage Combination: 1 • Small Storage Combination: 1 • Coat Hooks: 2 • Wall file holders: 8 Estimated Budget: $ 866.48
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Plan 3 Furnitures Included: • Attached to Wall Bookshelves: 8’ • Corner Bookshelf: 1 • Kids Chairs : 3 • Large Picture Frames: 4 • Kids Desks: 3 • Bookshelves: 2 • Large Storage Combination: 1 • Small Storage Combination: 1 • Coat Hooks: 2 Estimated Budget: $ 925.00
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Art Theme 1 Trains
This theme is incorporating the image of a train and pictures frames of displaying of children artwork as windows of the carts. The desk is going to be pieces of boards attached to the wall representing the connector of three different carts of the train. The ceiling of the carts is going to be convered to bookshelves that attached to the wall. Moreover, this theme also highlights the nature at the background to enrich the image and add a peaceful feeling to the room. Children are encourage to express what they have observed during their travel here by drawings or words.
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Art theme 2 Trees and Backyard
This theme is incorporating the image of a Latin American looking garden, with well-grown trees and vivid color bricks. This theme contains most art taste of Latin American culture amount the three with the bright red color of the bricks and the trees. The art theme brings them back to where they grew up. Moreover, the theme is going to insert picture frames as windows of the building and the children are encouraged to draw pictures expressing what they uesd to see in their backyard at home or what they are hoping to see during their new life here.
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Art theme 3 City Buildings
This theme is incorporating the image of American cities with cluster of buildings. Again, in this theme, picture frames are going to be inserted as windows and some of the windows are going to be converted as attached to wall bookshelves. The theme is going to give potential users a feeling of modern city living in the western civilization.
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Furniture References
STUVA Bench • • • • •
Width: 35 3/8” Depth: 19 5/8” Height: 19 5/8” Price: $49.00 Website: www.ikea.com
TROFAST STORAGE UNIT • • • • •
Width: 72 1/2” Depth: 11 3/4” Height: 37” Price: $ 223.00 Website : www.ikea.com
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Furniture Referrence
TROFAST STORAGE UNIT • • • • • •
Upper Width: 1’ 6 1/2” Down Width: 3’ 1” Depth: 8” Height: 2’ 7” Price: $73.59 Website: www.ikea.com
BYGEL RAIL AND CONTAINER • • • • •
Length: 21 3/4” Height: 2” Rail Price: $ 2.99 Container Price: $ 1.00 ea Website : www.ikea.com
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Furniture Referrence
CORNER LADDER BOOKCASE • • • • •
Width: 13.2” Depth: 13.2” Height: 72” Price: $57.99 Website: www.amazon.com
SAFARI WALL HOOKS • • • • •
Width: 15” Length: 5” Height: 6.3” Price: $34.00 Website: www.moderntots.com
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Furniture Referrence ATTACHED TO WALL WOOD BOARDS
WALL PAINTING MATERIALS
WALL FILE HOLDER
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Width: 11” Height: 8.5” Price: $10.00 Website: www.amazon.com
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Art Implementation
• Upon deciding on a date that works for everyone, the furniture installation can be done by volunteers of the community who we can recruit through workd of mouth or flyers if necessary. • The Art installations can be done by Merritt Johhson, who is a painting graduate of the Art Academy of Cinicnnati for a norminal hourly fee - Merritt.Johnson@ymail.com. • The purchase and installation for furnitures can be done by a University of Cincinnati Urban Planning bachelor student Yilin Li and the duplication of the existing furnitures can be done by the urban planning graduate student, Robert Eastman Johnson. • Prices and other options are negotiable.
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Contact Information
Robert Eastman Johnson Urban Planning Graduate student johns2re@mail.uc.edu University of Cincinnati
Yilin Li Urban Planning Bachelor student li2yl@mail.uc.edu University of Cincinnati
Laura Brinson Organization Staff Laura.Brinson@santamaria-cincy.org Santa Maria Community Service
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