Muses of Design/ Library
This is an aerial view of the building (excluding the gardens on the sides). The first floor has two entrances: one entrance for the students and one entrance for the community. The second floor is the round building with solar panels and skylights installed on the roof. The skylights will allow natural sunlight in and will illuminate the building to eliminate the use of artificial lighting and save energy. The solar panels will help save energy and will only be used when the lights are needed. There will be two exits in the second floor that will allow students to go outside and relax, work, or read under the sun. For safety precautions, we will put railings on the edge and will build the platform out far enough so students can sit at tables closer to the building. There will also be barriers to keep students from walking on the edge of the round edges of the first floor.
Comments
Hooray for more sketches! The dimensions off to the side are a little confusing, though. I doubt your building is actually 3 inches by 4 inches (Zoolander: "How can we be expected to teach children to learn how to read... if they can't even fit inside the building?"). Can you translate those paper dimensions into full-scale? Architects typically use scales to represent their drawings on paper. For example larger buildings drawn at a scale of 1/8" = 1'-0" can fit nicely on a 30" x 42" paper. For 8.5" x 11" paper, you might have to go with a smaller scale like 1/32" = 1'-0".
Sorry about those measurements, they were just for the purpose of the sketch. We have our scaled model measurements on a 1/4" = 1'. The measurements, though, are for our final design that is different than this sketch. We will post these new designs and measurements within the next couple of days for you.
You have a really have a nice building design going on here. I like it.
why do you have specific entrances for certain groups of people?
Global Inspirations,
We decided to have the two separate entrances because it reduces the risk of vandalism inside the school campus -- the community would have to walk around the campus to get to the entrance and we felt that from that, the risk of the school being vandalized would increase greatly. However, as for the student entrance, our plan was to create a border (if you will) around the door that was a matador dangling a cape and then students could walk through. The community entrance would be closed off during school hours so students do not have an excuse to walk to the front of the school and leave the campus.