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Those information-packed assets provide sensible recommendations for assessing house specifications and assembly them cost-effectively. no matter if you are construction a brand-new facility or increasing an latest one, you can find necessary counsel from those experts.Discover hands-on ways to: -- Exploring making plans and layout considerations-- Complying with the americans with Disabilities Act-- utilizing house creatively and effectivelyUses pictures, architectural plans, and step by step motives to stipulate the method of operating with architects and planners to create a library growth that doesn't compromise present layout aesthetics. Case stories from 3 educational libraries carry thoughts to lifestyles.
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The penetration of the third floor remained as initially proposed, with a custom-built circular study table surrounding it. The two rotunda study areas are Page 21 Figure 8. Hoover Library, main floor and "library street" Page 22 among the most popular sites in the library; they are attractive, convenient, and quiet-everything that an atrium is not. The elevator lobby links the new and old sections of the floor. Although there is a difference in ceiling height of about one foot, the differential is effectively masked, and even library visitors familiar with the old building have to be shown where the dividing line is between old and new.
Planning such a seamless architectural solution involves more than enlarging an existing structure. As many librarians know, additions bring with them their own set of issues and concernssite considerations, financial constraints, aesthetics, and function. Three case studies in this book illustrate how library staffs and architectural design teams can work closely together to plan seamless additions that are successful solutions to building problems. We are pleased to present this publication that began as a good idea, went on to become a conference program presented at the 1993 Annual Conference of the American Library Association in New Orleans, and has emerged as a title in the LAMA Occasional Paper Series.
Page 9 Figure 3. Van Zoeren/Van Wylen, basement Page 10 Second Floor On the second floor, an entrance links Van Zoeren, now a classroom building, and Van Wylen Library, making it possible to walk from the Vander Werf Hall, the physics and mathematics building, through Van Zoeren to Van Wylen without going outside. This has resulted in an enormous increase of foot traffic through the library. The curriculum library and the media center are located just within the second floor entrance because the planners foresaw moving the education department to the second floor of the renovated Van Zoeren Building.