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A Library Design for Scholars

Location Virtual Site

Time 04-06.2018 Year 3 Semester II （Modification：10-11.2019 Year 5 Semester I）

Type Research-led Architectural Design| Academic | Individual

With the development of internet and electronic book, library shift its function from where people learn to nowadays where people socialise. Libraries combine with coffee shop, or are designed as a photoshoot spot with exaggerated architectural language. Should libraries be something else rather than libraries?

After in-depth research and analysis on libraries history and it true user, I develop my own opinion about library and I believe library should be a place for reading and learning. I design the spaces specifically for theses true library users--"scholar" based on their needs, actions, behaviours, integrated with the updated machine learning simulation, to achieve the result of a company and interaction.

The History of Library

The time line of library could divided to ancient/modern/now. The price of books decrease four times by the technology progress, and the customers changes from a few elites to all people in need, which defined new “scholars”. Celebrity libraries nowadays lack the core of library culture ,can’t make scholars satisfied.

Preservation of information related to the royal family

Winners turn books to their hometown as trophy many libraries has been built to store the treasure

The 18th century saw the switch from closed parochial libraries to lending libraries.

The only library available for free trial by everyone at the time.

The enormous expansion of rail and telegraph lines allowed unprecedented movement of people and ideas, while electrical power and telephones make a revolution.

More kinds of libraries has been built. Public can choose a suitable place for study.

National library not open to public , even not for most of civilian though most of the libraries obey the limited rule of customers Patrons were not required to be members of a particular college or church to use the library

The library began to caterto the preferences of their customers. Reading became a symbol of identity and status.

Core: Provide a study chance for public.

Digital printing was popular, the public can choose any place to study, but need to go to the library to obtain

Digital printing was popular, the public can choose any place to study, but need to go to the library to obtain details

Demander E-books flood,the public can choose any place to learn anything

ENVIRONMENT & ACTION & LOCATION ANALYSIS

American anthropologist Dr. Edward Hall has defined four distances for interpersonal interaction: public distance 3.7m-7.6m/>7.6m, social distance1.2-2.1m, personal distance0.46-0.76m, intimate distance<0.15m.

Top20 of the best smells in the world

Cookies fresh from the oven、After it rains、Vanilla、 Freshly baked bread

Freshly ground coffee

Freshly popped popcorn

The most suitable temperature for the human body is between 18 ° C and 24 ° C. The most suitable healthy humidity for the human body is between 45% RH and 65% RH.

The suitable temperature range in the library is 1424°C, the relative humidity is 45-60%; the temperature and humidity fluctuations are ± 2 ° C and ± 5% for each day and night

Temperature:25-28℃ Humidity:50-60%

Sound:Lower than 55db, White noise, Light music Smell: smell of paper/ink/grass/coffee/toast

Student Mainly

Students sit for about 10 hours at school. Long time sitting make them tired, but they are also sensitive and have strong independent awareness. Lying posture is not elegant for them. They prefer standing alone in the library.

School Nearby Tourist

16:00-19:00

“Scholars” in tourism are often the age group with more independent opinions and more mature values, they are not too bound by family life and have a relatively healthy body. They prefer the way more experiential but fatigue prone, like walking and riding. They traveling alone often, but also want to know people and things they are interested in. They prefer to sit relaxed.

Office Nearby

Office workers spend most of the day sitting and working. People who like to read after work are also full of energy. They may read alone or with close one. As long as they can read more relaxed, they may choose both standing and lying positions.

“Scholars” who can go to the library after shopping are always independent and energetic, they will choose a more polite and appropriate sitting posture, and they are more inclined to be alone with the public distance.

Places around residential area are suitable for each scholar, when they choose to read outside instead at home, they want to have be alone.

Time may be more stochastic for holiday and be limited for workdays.

Mall Nearby

Residential Area

Workers Mainly Customers Mainly Residents Mainly

Human body Analysis

I was inspired by the interaction between murals and people. Scholars may have different preferences in the library, but they all like a space where they can interact with. Here I introduced the concept of artificial intelligence. First ， I collected and summarized the activities of scholars, identified the corresponding active and passive joints in vitruvius, and then abstracted people into points and lines to input AI for mechanical learning. In order to make the learning content more accurate, I conducted a series of experiments, which abstracted the actions occurring in the actual space through the above steps as part of the learning content of AI.

I took out a group of actions for mechanical simulation, and illustrated the learning and elimination process of this group with diagram.

Structural Explosion

The secondary structure(2) receive code Score

Bookshelf Yes No

The main structure(1) working

The main structure(1) always recieve code

The secondary structure(2) idle

LEARNING & ELIMINATE

The secondary structure(2) working Judging environment elements

ON Site (a,b.c) L≤ x ON Yes Yes Yes A(1) B(2) C(2)

OFF ON No No No

Eliminate

STEPS OF THE WALL LEARNING

The secondary structure(2) idle of merit learning

The secondary structure(2) working Judging environment elements

Eliminate

Spherical Spherical shell

Feedback generated by people in the environment is received by the wall and taken as the criteria for scoring and judging, and the library of motor learning is constantly updated to gradually update new movements. The user's real-time judgment and the machine's judgment together determine whether the displayed action should go into the deep learning cycle or be eliminated directly.