issue 02 brief

ISSUE

George IV Bridge / / / / Vaults / / / Magazine Library

Brief

19-22

23-24

Contents

Site

03-04 Urban Environment, Public Libraies 05-08 Area plan 09-12 Photography of the area 13-18 Site

Brief

19-22 Precedent examples of modernized buildings 23-24 Brief 25-26 Functional Precedent of brief 27-28 History of Magazines

Concept

29-32 Typography // Connecting the Vaults

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Urban Environment By analysing existing places and the complex relationships between their constituent parts we can learn to recognise and create the qualities of a rich and stimulating urban environment.

royal mile

castle

waverly station

scott monument/ princess street

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public library In a traditional sense, a library is a large collection of books, and can refer to the place in which the collection is housed.

Today, the term can refer to any collection, including digital sources, resources, and services. The collections can be of print, audio, and visual materials in numerous formats, including maps, prints, doc uments, microform (microfilm/microfiche), CDs, cassettes, videotapes, DVDs, video games, e-books, audiobooks and many other electronic resources.

The term has acquired a secondary meaning: „a collection of useful material for common use.“ Libraries often provide a place of silence for studying, and they also often offer common areas to accomodate for group study and collaboration.

Libraries often provide public facilities to access to their electronic resources and the Internet. Modern libraries are increasingly being redefined as places to get unrestricted access to information in many formats and from many sources. They are extending services beyond the physical walls of a building, by providing material accessible by electronic means, and by providing the assistance of librarians in navigating and analyzing tremendous amounts of information with a variety of digital tools.

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view 1 Oblique aerial view centred on the libraries, taken from the ENE

The overlapping of the Cowgate and the George IV Bridge is visible on these images. It creates two different levels within the library where the main entrance is on the 4th level of the building.

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// view from castle // views from grassmorket, entrance of library and cowgate

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// view from Goerge IV Bridge

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// Cowgate - entrance to the vaults/ car park

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Groundfloor - level 0 // Central Library and vaults under George IV Bridge - entrance Cowgate 1:500

Library rooms on this level //newspaper stack, book binding shop, common room, kitchen, store, delivery bay, book stack Vaults // carpark cafĂŠ (fringe) bar area (fringe) store (fringe)

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Level 1 // Central Library and vaults under George IV Bridge 1:500

Library // bibliographic services, book selection, book stock, office, WC male/female

Vaults // performance area (fringe) changing (fringe) bar area (fringe) toilets (fringe)

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level 2 - mezzanine // Central Library and vaults under George IV Bridge - entrance Cowgate 1:500

Library level 2 // scotish library, scottish library book store, store, office, rare books room mezzanine // edinburgh room, reading room, maps and prints, mezzanine floor, lending office, project office, edinburgh room annexe, conference room Vaults // performance area (fringe) void (fringe) store (fringe) lounge (fringe)

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level 3 // Central Library George IV Bridge Main entrance 1:500

Library level 3 // main entrance goerge IV bridge, entrance hall, lending library, book stack

George IV Bridge

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elevation to west side of George IV Bridge

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Precendent examples of modernized buildings Rhode Island School of Design Library

Completion: 2006 Gross floor area: 5100sqm Design: Intervention Renaissance Hospital Trust Bank building from 1917 changed into a 21st-century visual-arts library by Nader Tehrani and Monica Ponce de Leon Architecture designed by York & Sawyer, the old building features an interior space 180 feet long and 114 feet wide and topped by an elaborately coffered, barrelvaulted ceiling

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Amsterdam Public Library

Completion: 7 July 2007 new building Architect: Jo Coenen The Amsterdam Public Library is the central one of three large new buildings, near the Central Station. The programme consists of a library of almost 30,000 m2 (including theatre), a large cafĂŠ, and 9,000 m2 of office space. The reading and study rooms are like terraces and are placed around large and tall empty spaces.

A terrace on the top floor accommodates the library theatre and conference rooms.

The main shape of the building is attuned to receive enough sunlight.

Design: different kind of sitting areas, on different hight and different privacy skills

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MOOD IMAGES

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Brief Central Libraries are beginning to be seen not as a temple of knowledge but as a ‘living room’ in the city offering comfort and entertainment. Taking the Central Library of Edinburgh and introducing a magazine section would give the old building a new ‘living room’.

I discovered The Vaults, a hidden area under George IV Bridge and felt potential in the dark, hidden spaces to create a new journey for people to experience. Filling the vaults with old and new magazines will give a new life to the Cowgate. The deeper one goes into the space, the more the natural light disappears. Time becomes irrelevant; vintage magazines transport people into different eras.

There will be a coffee shop to enjoy the magazines or books from the main library. As magazine culture changes, digital elements will be included as well. It will be a space to escape from the busy city, pass the time, and to emerge into a different world of the magazine.

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Functional precedents of the brief Magazine Library Exhibition, Tokyo

We love Magazine Library, Tokyo Exhibitions since 2009 Magazine Library is the first moving exhibit/library of magazines and independent publications from over 50 countries.

Each exhibit is a curated new discovery of magazines with genres of fashion, architecture, art, culture, lifestyle, photography, and more.

Vintage magazines dating back to the 1920s are part of Magazine Library`s large collection.

There have been over 35,000 visitors at Magazine Library`s first four showings.

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Beginnings "The Gentleman's Magazine" was published in London in 1731 by a printer named Edward Cave. It was the first multipage-format publication bound not as a book, but as loose-leaf pages.

1700

First Magazine looked like a book

1731

Increased Magazine Sales Due to the decreased postage rates on magazines and increased literacy rapid magazine growth occurred Until the 1800s

1800

only the upper classes read magazines. They were small soft cover books, carrying stories that appealed to a classically-educated, elite readership. The poor folk read newspapers and weekly tabloids.

Magazines were expensive, partly because printing technology limited even the most popular to a run of 100,000 copies.

1821

In 1883, the Scotland-born publisher S.S. McClure dropped the price of his generalinterest McClure‘s magazine to only 15 cents.

Muckraking Mclure‘s magazine starts „muckraking“ in magazines that are read by the masses 1883

Saturday Evening Post The first successful magazine in the United states was the „Saturday Evening Post“

1910 International issues As World War I approached Magazines started featuring international issues

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Historical informations

Time Magazine becomes the first weekly news magazine.

1922

Life magazine becomes the first picture magazine; launches photojournalism

1933

Esquire First major „glossy“ men‘s magazine. Featured pinups and impressive literary features.

1936

Change In News Magazines news magazines foucused on smaller news stories but gave more prospective on the subject

People Magazine This magazine was the most popular launches in history.

1945

1970

Magazine Look Change When magazines where first created they looked like books after WWII they changed to the modern form

2001

Digital facsimiles in PDF format are distributed by publishers

2002

2007/08

Digital-only “page-flip” magazines launched (Monkeymag, Jellyfish etc) Thousands of digital magazines are available through digital newstands

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SCHEDULE OF ACCOMODATION

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entrance

coffee shop magazine

vintage magazines

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typography

I was looking for a connection between the 2 dimensional and the 3D. There are a lot of similarities in graphic design and architecture.