Summary

We are used to having our libraries packed with bookshelves and tables, but is that the best way of for students to learn. Students will learn the most when they are comfortable and have a quiet place. Students will have multiple rooms to work in a quite area or to collaboratively work as a group. The reason for this decision is too give students to work alone in a quiet place or work as a group and not having people complain as a group.

The library will have two main entrances and two other fire safety exits. Students will be able to use both of the main entrances and will have to check out books before them an exit to the main lobby. When the library will be open to the community all doors will be locked except the main entrance the doors leading to the hall way will not be open for students, they will not be able to access the school after school hours.

The library will have a main entrance from the outside (shown in picture) and when entering the library the main lobby will be straight ahead with nice comfortable couches and tables for students to read and work. The book checks out will be to the left with the librarian’s office next to it. The other door will be nest to the librarian’s office leading to the hallway. First floor will have rooms for conference, student’s group work area, and book storage. The second floor will have computer lab and quite work area also.

The panel that answered all of our of questions gave us a great idea of making the library second story, not only would it give us more space but with a second floor it would give us chances of making the architecture look amazing. The garden video that we watched inspired us to make a garden that involved the community that was big and had all kinds of plants that are drought proof and would save us money from not watering too much. It gave me a great idea of having the garden around the library with big trees that would let the students sit around the library in shade.
Our outside of the building will have Johns Manville Polyisocyanurate Foam Sheathing, we found out that this is the best insulation for the outside of the building it will keep the heat out of the library and save lots on money for the AC. http://www.jm.com/insulation/building_insulation/products/bid0022_ap_foi... In order to save up to 35% on cooling cost we decided to put clay tile roofing that reflects 20 to 35% of the light. Reflective coatings will be used to keep heat from entering a building by reflecting sunlight away from it. Best products such as NU-Wool engineered cellulose polyurethane foam will cover the inside. These energy effective ways that seemed best for our building will keep the most heat out and the coolest air in the library.

Our Director of Interior Design will be researching all the new furniture and technology that can be used to make the library a unique and a better place. She will also be looking at the space of the library and making it comfortable for everyone.
The Director of Building Design in our group will design the library, the shape of the building. She will also design second and third floor, roof, windows, doors, and drain system for rain, energy saving systems and what materials are going to be used for everything. Lastly, she will design the way the building will be functioning.

Our Director of Sustainability/energy will be exploring different ways our library can save and reuse energy. Also she will be researching how the library building can be cooled as well as heated, and what kind of sustainable building products can be used. We researched the best way to save energy, and we found the top products that were the best.
1. Windows that let light in but keep heat out (double glazing), you can illuminate and cool the building interiors more efficiently.
2. Design for dual plumbing to use recycled water for toilet flushing or a gray water system that recovers rainwater or other non-potable water for site irrigation.
3. Minimize wastewater by using Gerber’s ultra low flush toilets.
4. Use recirculation systems for centralized hot water distribution.
5. Run hot water from solar heaters.
6. Absorption chillers can be 75% smaller and half as expensive
7. Refined form will be used for heating in the winter. 100 ground probes are sunk into the ground at five-meter intervals then connected to the building supply network. These will enable energy to manage on the campus with almost no co2 emission.

The Director of Community relations will construct the library so that the community will be involved. The garden will be our most attraction that we will get from the community, they will have certain hours of visitation due to school hours and they will also be able to use the library. The library will also hold once a semester a “career night” parents and community member will be invited from all sorts of jobs and will present to the students what they do at their jobs. Every Saturday night there will be a bingo and all the elderly will be invited from the community. The library will be open to anyone who will want to use conference rooms or any other activity.

Our Director of Landscape will use drought proof plants to save water. They will also use lightweight rocks for decoration, faux rocks are artificial that are use full and are used for many different aspects of the garden. They are designing a garden around the front of the library with a sculpture of a Matador and a bull made from soapstone clay. The garden will be open to the public and will be also used by a gardening class given to students.

For building, our director of building design will be using McNear Old California Old Myford Thin Brick, by McNear. For a three story section of the library she will be using steel and Double-Glazed with moderate-Solar-Gain Low-E Glass by Efficient Windows collaborative. Those windows will let in lots of natural light, while not making it too bright. High efficiency lighting with advanced lighting controls will be used, and dim-able lighting to save energy, inspired by Green Building Basics. Red wood will be used. \she will also use properly sized and energy-efficient heat and cooling, R-value to save energy. Lastly, photovoltaic and fuel cells will be used as great energy sources. She will recycle old building materials to build the new library, use zero or low gassing and toxicity, and use dual plumbing, and low-flush toilets. These ideas were inspired by Green Building Basics.