LIBRARY | Reimagining Knowledge Centre

A Design Thesis Presented by

Ruchi Goenka

Submitted to
The Department of Architecture
Shri Gijubhai Chhaganbhai Patel Institute of Architecture, Interior Design & Fine Arts of Veer Narmad South Gujarat University, Surat

Bachelors of Architecture
June – 2021 / Year – V / Semester - X
Abstract

The study intends towards a new social ecosystem where innovation is a spectacle and culture is the heart of the community.
Today media content is produced and consumed by everybody, everywhere. As it continuously overwhelms us with images, our perception of
information has been drastically modified, the libraries evolution through the integration of new media technologies is responding to society’s
insatiable appetite for visual stimulation. The Internet has simultaneously shifted our perception of knowledge as well as our relationship to the
physical territory and the new media library can actually reinforce its significance by becoming a physical manifestation of the information age.
The project consciously addresses an environment where information is merged with entertainment and where the transposition of image, sound,
and text assimilate data into a comprehensive experience.
The approach is a physical interface, a three-dimensional identity of virtual knowledge that redefines digital information exchange as a
constructed experience in space. Also, to give people an initiative neighbourhood attraction for the public to be involved, to have them a better
perspective for the evolving media and so the knowledge.
Acknowledgment

I would like to express my heartiest gratitude towards my professors, without whom this thesis would not have been possible. I owe them for their
thorough guidance and mentorship in this project. I would like to sincerely thank all my mentors namely, Ar. Kruti Galia and Ar. Rajesh Mehta. All
of them have given this project a sense of direction and scope at each and every stage of its process towards completion.
They have given their valuable inputs and wisdom of experiences because of which this design thesis has turned out to be fruitful opportunity to
learn and explore. With this project, I had a huge scope to develop my understanding about how the fustiest urban amenity is rewriting its future.
 ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN THESIS

LIBRARY|REIMAGINING
KNOWLEDGE
CENTRE
GANDHINAGAR, GUJARAT

BACHELOR OF ARCHITECTURE
SEMESTER X YEAR V
SUBMITTED BY : RUCHI GOENKA (20)
G.C.P.I.A., V.N.S.G.U.
INTRODUCTION
Aim – ROLE OF LIBRARIES –

• The aim of the study is to provide materials and resources that entertain and
inspire as well as services offering space for people and information to come
together.
Excite

• And also to select, evaluate and acquire spaces and materials in varied formats to
meet and respond to the needs of our continuous advancing diverse community.
Introduction –
• Hence, to summarise aim of the project :
Create LIBRARY Explore
• A new social ecosystem where innovation is a spectacle and culture is the
heart of the community. “To design an urban complex which can be an attraction for the culture of knowledge
to learn, create and enjoy; all at the same spot.”
• Today media content is produced and consumed by everybody,
everywhere. LIBRARIES : AS WE SEE IT –
Participate

• As it continuously overwhelms us with images, our perception of The public library, the local gateway to knowledge , provides a basic condition for a
information has been drastically modified, and so the libraries evolution lifelong learning, independent decision making and cultural development of the
through the integration of new media technologies is responding to individual and social groups. Libraries with respect to space and functions
society’s insatiable appetite for visual stimulation. – UNESCO Manifesto, 1994
A leap in spatial transformation have been observed considering libraries.
• New libraries have to react to the inherent culture of postmodern media • Library needs to be transformed as an active social space.
society. The change in attitude has not only resulted in a change of functions of a
• The evolution of the role of library in society over the centuries from private library, but also had a great impact on the spaces offered within the
resource to civic monuments to a functional building to living room of the city is library.
• Knowledge – being virtually everywhere – broken free of constraint of
building. today in flux.
Instead of uniform rooms full of books and silence, modern libraries have
• Library needs to be transformed as an active social space. different zones – each serving a specialized function – in an attempt to
• Hence, project gives opportunity for a physical manifestation of digital
expand the possibilities of usage/users.
information age.

Need – Empowerment
LEARNING SPACE

• Preserving the books, providing information and space for reading has
been the very purpose of libraries for ages.
PERFORMA MEETING
TIVE SPACE SPACE
• Spaces like them needs transformation and are required to be hybrid of Experience LIBRARY Involvement
the traditional ones with the advanced ones, in a way that the need for
the libraries would evolve further and will keep pace with time and
INSPIRATION
eventually save themselves from getting obsolete.
/EXPERIENCE
SPACE
• These spaces need to be interactive and modern to receive the footfall.
Innovation

DISCUSS THINK CREATE

Libraries with respect to impact of s[ace and functions

PERFORM STUDY BROWSE

So, a physical interface, a three-dimensional identity of

MEET READ PLAY virtual knowledge that redefines digital information
exchange as a constructed experience in space, aroused the
need to reimagine the libraries as we see it.
ARCHITECTURAL INTENTION

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INTRODUCTION
RE ASSESSING THE STRUCTURE OF LIBRARIES – FOR LEARNING
LEARNING COMMUNITY
PLACE PLACE
EARLIER MODEL Interaction Informal The study and learning spaces of modern public libraries are becoming
Campus of increasingly integrated. It allows users to learn through conversation and
institutions interaction and prescribes more informal, relaxed and pleasurable
Inspiration Interactive
environments of learning.
Although great for providing range of exposure, these
Technology Flexible
centers rarely stay active as they enjoy varying FOR COMMUNITY
popularity among the masses.
Conversation Hub This is very important in the modern public library and they must
Thus, some spaces gets activated while some remain incorporate design that allows library to ‘accommodate change as well as a
neglected even while being present on the project. widening variety of activities.

By exposure
DESIGN ELEMENTS AND THEIR
By experience
FUNCTIONS
PROPOSED
MODEL Blurred By observing These categories of learning and
LEARNING
boundaries COLLECTION acknowledging the knowledge
By doing
underlines the spatial
In order to generate a holistic environment and By interaction components for the project.
activate all the spaces, inter disciplinary
collaboration between spaces needs to be CONNECTION These can be further categorized
encouraged. with different aspect, according
to their function and relevance :
All the facilities needs to be housed and accessed
together.

National Libraries Academic Libraries Public Libraries

•A national library is a •An academic library is a •A public library is Evolution of public libraries f
library established by a library that is attached a library that is rom
government as a to a higher education accessible by the rigid, enclosed and static
country's preeminent institution. general public. to
repository of flexible, open and flowing
information. •Serves two •Public libraries are
complementary distinct from research
ACTIVITTY ILLUMINANCE NOISE
•Unlike public libraries, purposes: to support libraries, school
these rarely allow the curriculum, and to libraries, and
A research carried out by Department of Digital, Culture, Visual comfort is very important as users Noise levels can be a difficulty in the modern public library
citizens to borrow support the research of other special
Media and Sport on library users take note of the spend long periods of time reading in the where the provision of more open plan flowing spaces can
books. the university faculty libraries in that their
evolving community responsibility modern library has. library. result in greater noise permeation.
and students. mandate is to serve the
•Often, they include general public's Visual comfort is intrinsically linked to
numerous rare, •Thus the resources are information needs illuminance.
valuable, or significant often specialised and rather than the needs
works. limited to the purview of a particular school,
or interests of the institution, or research
student – faculty of population.
campus.

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INTRODUCTION

SPATIAL CONFIGURATION OF LIBRARIES OVER THE TIME

Source : ‘library and learning resource centers’, Brian Edwards,

2009

PROJECT AGENDA

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CASE STUDY – CEPT LIBRARY, AHMEDABAD
INTRODUCTION
Embedded in the
heart of the CEPT
University
campus,
the Library is
envisioned as a
space for
catalyzing
connections
among users.
Neutrally
oriented at a
PROJECT DATA central location This is the first building on the CEPT campus not designed by Balkrishna Doshi, the school’s founder. It defers to the earlier brick and
Architects: RMA Architects with separate concrete buildings but distinguished itself with a much lighter façade made up primary of operable wood louvers.
Location: Ahmedabad, India and equal
Area: 31,000 sq. m entrances, access
Project Year: 2017 to the building.

SPATIAL CONFIGURATION AND MATERIALS

A central book core, surrounded by study carrels, with archives at the base, extends almost 40
feet down into the ground, a strategy that provides a geothermal advantage in the hot
climate. The three stories above grade house exhibition spaces and reading rooms.

Instead of static concrete elements, or the solidity of brick, Mehrotra’s library has delicate
plywood slats that can be adjusted and shifted to mitigate the sun or let the breezes in.

CONTEXT AND PLANNING

Using the functional requirements of the library as

an underlying contemporary theme, the building
formally weaves itself into the pre-existing campus
narrative.

Through alignments in plan with adjacent

buildings, modulation of sectional levels into and
above the earth, and honest material selection and
expression, the building respects the continuum of
existing architectural expression that has defined To avoid exceeding the height of the existing campus building, the architects submerged three of the library’s
the CEPT University campus for decades. six storeys below grade. Light filters through the adjustable louvers, reaching almost to the building’s lowest.

At the most fundamental performative level, the The library resembles a building within a building. The inner one has a skin of drywall and glass while the
CEPT Library is a technologically adept repository outer one is defined by the wood louvres.
of multi-format media, both responding to and
anticipating the current and future acquisitions of Entrance to the lobby is through a bridge that spans the interstitial space between the library’s inner and
the university. outer skins.

SECTIONAL EXPLORATION Carrels and other study areas surround, and are distributed among the book stacks.

Located at -4 meters and -8

meters below ground level, the
book stacks, carrels, and study
spaces benefit from both
plentiful and filtered natural
lighting that pours in through
the louvered facade as well as
the natural cooling effect
provided by the surrounding
earth.

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CASE STUDY – SEATTLE PUBLIC LIBRARY, SEATTLE
INTRODUCTION LIBRARY IN A NITSHELL
PLANNING AND SOCIAL STAGING IN THE
The library cultivates a more refined approach by LIBRARY
The Seattle Central Library is the organizing itself into spatial compartments, each
flagship of the Seattle Public Library dedicated to, and equipped for, specific duties. The library holdings are separated for different
system. Innovative in both form and targeted users in each functional section.
function, the contemporary, glass and Each platform is a programmatic cluster that is Holdings related with kids are placed in the
steel building. architecturally defined and equipped for maximum, “children’s center”; fiction, new books, DVDs,
dedicated performance. Because each platform is teen’s center, coffee cart and library shop are
Designed with growth in mind, the 11- designed for a unique purpose, their size, flexibility, placed in the “living room”; public computers
story Central Library has the capacity circulation, palette, structure, and MEP vary. and non-fiction references are placed in “mixing
for more than 1.5 million books and chamber”; and non-fiction materials are placed
materials. in “Book Stacks”.

LABELLED SECTIONAL DIAGRAMS

Collections, administration and staff, information and

public space functions are arranged to optimize daylight
and city views.

Other special elements are the “mixing chamber.”

PROJECT DATA
Architects: OMA + LMN
Location: Seattle, WA, USA
Area: 6,000 sq. m
Project Year: 2004
Years of Construction: 1999-2004

CONCEPT

The concept involves the

reinvention of the library as an
access point to information
presented in a variety of media.

‘The new library does not

reinvent or modernize
traditional, they are just
packaged in a new way’. The problem of traditional library
organization is flatness. Departments
The program was divided into are organized according to floor plans.
five major platforms. Each floor is discreet; the
unpredictable fits of growth and
• The central idea was to reinvent the library as a hub that would host information in varying forms of contraction in certain sections are,
media. theoretically, contained within a single
floor.
• The Library is distributed as a central spiral instead of a conventional arrangement of books and
other media.
IN-BETWEEN SPACES
By detaching and shifting the
floors, and at least by providing
visual connection; OMA obtained
new spaces and unforeseen
relations between different
program parts.

These new spaces, namely, in-

between spaces, are more
flexible in character.

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CASE STUDY – HUNT LIBRARY, NORTH CAROLINA

STUDY SPACE

Generous open spaces connect all floors of the library and open stairs emphasize
an interactive and social environment alongside more focused study areas.

A wide variety of study and learning environments, and technology-focused

experimental labs break the now ubiquitous model of the learning commons.

“Disruptive” learning spaces with colorful, dynamic furnishings exist beside more
traditional study rooms.

PROJECT DATA
Architects: Snohetta
Location: Raleigh, North Carolina, US
Area: 20,542 sq. m
Project Year: 2013

INTRODUCTION

Snøhetta’s Hunt Library design balances the

understood pre-existing needs with the University’s
emerging needs to create a forward-thinking learning
environment.

While clearly a contemporary structure within a

traditional context of the NCSU campus, the Hunt
Library provides a positive platform for influencing
its surroundings.

AUTOMATED BOOK SERVICE

The Hunt Library’s 5- storey robotic

bookBot automated retrieval system is
capable of holding two million volumes
in 1/9 the space of conventional
shelving. The system is supported by MUSIC ROOMS
Virtual Browse, a user-friendly browsing Music Rooms are fully equipped for creating and mixing
software which enhances the traditional music, recording voiceovers, transferring audio from
pleasure of browsing a collection by analog formats, and editing digital media with full 88-
allowing users to see a virtual shelf of key MIDI controller/keyboards, professional
materials classified near the resources microphones, turntables, cassette decks,
TECHNOLOGY found by their initial search. sequencers, digital audio workstations, and media
editing tools and software.
The integration of state-of-the-art library technology is highly visible in the building’s design.
VISUALIZATION WALL
innovative building features give faculty and students hands-on experience with the large-scale visualization tools. The Game Lab supports The provides spaces awash with The Visualization Wall features the most unique shape
NC State’s Digital Games Research Center by providing an experimental commons to explore collaborative game design and the role of natural light, expansive views of of any of the video walls in the Hunt Library. Faculty
gaming in education. the nearby lake and outdoor and students can create content to display on the
break and seating areas. Visualization Wall.
The library’s Teaching and Visualization Lab, the Creativity Studio, a 3D printing workshop and extensive digital media production facilities.

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CASE STUDY – LOCHAL, TILBURG, NETHERLANDS
LIBRARY ON THE TRACK INTRODUCTION

An area in the middle of the By converting the vacant structure

into the public library, and at the
city previously used for the same time creating space to work, its
production and maintenance story of steel and sweat is brought
of trains. back again to the greater public and
future generations.

That which has defined city and its

people has now become the heart of
public life in a new form.

PLANNING AND SPATIAL CONFIGURATION PROGRAM cum FEATURE

• The LocHal is a space for both young and old to read, learn, study, meet and A café with reading and exhibition space
Interior street
gather. Children’s library with efteling
• It is a place for testing, creating, exhibiting and presenting the latest atmosphere
Youth zone and game lab
innovations. Stair landscape
• Upon entering from the southern corner’s main entrance, next to the Library as laboratory
StadsCafé (‘City Café’), one is faced with long views running diagonally past Digi lab
Workshop rooms
the building’s many functions. Game lab
• From the entrance hall, the landscape of stairs leads visitors up towards the Digital screening
Learning lab
peripheral galleries which allows one to browse books or retreat into one of Time lab
the quieter reading areas. Dialogue lab
• Higher up, the filtered roof light and the refined details of the structure Word lab

PROJECT DATA creates a more ephemeral atmosphere.

Architects: Braaksma & Roos
architectenbureau, CIVIC
architects, Inside Outside, Mecanoo
Location: Tilburg, Netherlands
Area: 5,400 sq. m
Project Year: 2019
CONCEPT

Retaining the structure – living room

phenomenon :

• The original idea for the scheme was to

build a ‘box-within-a-box’, an obvious
concept for an existing structure that
was not airtight.
Dealing with climate :
• They developed five ‘climate zones’ for
the project, an unusual concept for a
public library.
• The two ‘stair landscapes, for example,
are ‘heated and cooled like a car-seat’ as INTERWOVEN ARCHITECTURE
van der Heijden puts it. The interior is varied, playful and innovative. There is a diversity of atmospheres for meeting, collaboration, and concentrated work. The old tracks are visible in the concrete floor. They are used to move three large wheeled “train” tables.
• The café, on the other hand, is left
unheated, since visitors don’t stay there Characteristic historical elements form an exciting combination with new oak and steel additions. In the intimate Writing Room, books continue seamlessly from the walls onto the ceiling, wrapping the entire
space and turning it into an immersive world of literature and language.
for particularly long periods. The Efteling theme park is the source of inspiration for the children's library. Bookcases take on the form of colored pencils or rulers.
• Enclosed presentation space on 1st floor
also heated separately, accommodating
up to 60 people.

City’s identity :

• The remaining tracks are now used to move

around large tables made from the
undercarriages of trains.
• Tilburg is not only known for its worsites of the
Dutch National Railways, but also for its textile
industry.

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CASE STUDY – ALLIANCE FRANCAISE, DELHI COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS OF CASE STUDIES
PROJECT DATA
Architects: Stepher Paumier
and ABRD
Location: Delhi, India
Area: 2,850 sq. m
Project Year: 2004

LOCATION AND CONTEXT

Besides the built character, the proximity
to the lush and historic Lodhi Gardens
was another key driver of the design.
Even though performing spaces and
gallery is a common feature of buildings
all around, the center is still able to stand
out due to its learning center.

INTRODUCTION

Build as a cultural center for

the French Embassy in India,
the building looks to
represent both the French as
well as the modern Indian
entity.

LIBRARY INSIDE-
Placed on top of the OUT
auditorium, the library has
two zones : an interactive The built
zone – a double height and the
space flood with sunlight unbuilt
and a quiet zone. interlock
TERRACES like
Each volume serves as a fingers
terrace for the program on making
top. Thus, there is multiple multiple
terraces located at all levels courts
allowing for the plants to and spill
further grow and form a out
micro climate. spaces.

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 ARCHITECTURAL PROGRAM
SR. NO. SPACE NATURE OF USER TYPE NO. CAPACITY AREA/PERSON AREA SR. NO. SPACE NATURE OF SPACE USER TYPE NO. CAPACITY AREA/PERSON AREA
SPACE (SQ. M) (SQ. M) (SQ. M) (SQ. M)

1. ADMINISTRATION 190 4. FOOD COURT 482

Reception Closed Management and visitors 1 10 2 20 Seating Open, semi open Visitors 1 100 2.5 250
Information centre Closed 2 8 2 32 Kitchen Closed 1 45
Manager’s office Closed 1 3 2.5 7.5 Counters Closed 2 34
Management
Support staff Room Closed 1 20-25 2 45 Store room Closed 2 18
Management staff
Meeting Room Closed 1 10 1.5 15 Toilets Closed Visitors M-1 M-6 2 24
Store room Closed 1 10 F-1 F-6
Circulation + Services (30% of 371) 111
Toilets Closed Management and visitors M-1 M-4 2 16
F-1 F-4
Circulation + Services (30% of 145.5) 44.5 5. PUBLIC PLAZA 828

Reception Semi open Visitors and 1 8 2 16

2. LIBRARY 5,767 management
Open lounge Open 1 100-150 2.5 312
Lobby Semi open Management and visitors 1 100
Visitors
Outdoor sit and read area Open 1 300
Help desk Closed 3 8 2 48
Archives closed Management 1 10
General stacks Closed Visitors 1000 books per 15 sq. m 1500
Circulation + Services (30% of 638) 190
Closed stacks Closed Young 1 1000
adults/professionals
Daily stacks Closed Adults and old people 1 500
6. PARKING 40% of used F.S.I. 4,250
Group study lounge Semi open Visitors 1 100-150 2 250

Silent study lounge Closed Teens, adults and 3 30 1.5 135

professionals BUILT UP AREA 8,167 sq. m
Carrel space Closed Young adults and 1 50-60 2 110 CIRCULATION AREA ( 30% ) 2,450 sq. m
professionals
TOTAL BUILT UP AREA (USED F.S.I. – 1.28) 10,617 sq. m
Informal lounge Semi open Visitors 1 100-150 2 250

Teen’s library Semi open Adolescents and teens 1 80 2 160

SITE AREA 8,269 sq. m
Kid’s library Semi open Children 1 50 3 150 FSI – 1.5 12,403 sq. m
Computer stations Closed Visitors 2 60-80 1.5 210

Toilets Closed Visitors M-1 M-6 2 24 NEUFERT’S STANDARDS FOR LIBRARIES :

F-1 F-6
Automation space Closed Management

Circulation + Services (30% of 4,437) 1,330

3. VISUAL AND PERFORMANCE CENTRE 900

Reception Semi open Visitors and management 1 8 2 16

Audio visual room Closed Teens, adults and 2 80 1 160

professionals
Miscellaneous area Closed 1 200

Technology showcase Semi open 2 5 40

Maker’s space Closed Visitors 1 150

Multi purpose studio Closed 2 30 100

White box Black box

Store room Closed Management 1 10

Toilets Closed Visitors M-1 M-4 2 16

F-1 F-4
Circulation + Services (30% of 692) 208

USER GROUP
CHILDREN ADOLESCENTS AND TEENS YOUNG ADULTS AND PARENTS OLD PEOPLE VISITORS
ADULTS/PROFESSIONALS
AGE : 6-13 AGE : 14-20 AGE : 20-40 AGE : 30-55 AGE : 60-80 AGE : 25-65

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 SITE INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS
A library proposed in Gandhinagar, Gujarat under the Smart City Mission; under Area Based Development (ABD). Location of Gandhinagar, the central portion that comes under GMC (Gandhinagar Municipal Corporation) Zoomed in view of Sector 17, Gandhinagar

23°13'36.2
"N
72°38'53.1
"E

ABD
Showing the connectivity of Gandhinagar
The
selecte
d site
for
ABD
compri
ses of
sector
7, 11,
17, 21,
22,
part of
sector
20 and
Mahat TOPOGRAPHY OF GANDHINAGAR
ma
Gandhi
path • Gandhinagar is spread over an area of 205 square kilometers covering the districts of Mehsana, Patan, Gandhinagar,
along Sabarkantha and Banaskantha.
with
Mahat
• Most of Gandhinagar land is arid and dry in nature depending upon climatic conditions in the city.
ma • Gandhinagar has wetlands that are present in the form of mudflats, lakes, creeks, salt marshes, swamps, estuaries and
Mandi reservoirs.
r and
Gandhi • Rivers: The main rivers of the city are Sabarmati River, Vatrak River, Meshvo River and Khari River.
nagar o The city lies on the western banks of River Sabarmati.
Railwa
y
o River Sabarmati dries up in summers when only a very narrow flow of water is seen in place of the river.
station • Lakes:
. o Gandhinagar Lake at Sector 1
o Adalaj Lake, Gandhinagar District

CLIMATICAL DATA SOIL DETAIL DRAINAGE DETAIL

Map showing the soil type over Gandhinagar district.
The highlighted part shows that the GMC area has Coarse Map showing the main drainage lines over the main
Loamy soil. roads of Gandhinagar city.

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SITE INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS

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SITE INTRODUCTION AND ANALYSIS

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PROJECT CONCERNS

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PROJECT IDEOLOGY

DIGITAL INTERFACE FOR

AUGMENTED REALITY APP BOOK DELIVERY DRONE LIBRARY UTENSILS
PRINT BOOKS

• It is a concept of • Library drone is not • Anyone who • A library could offer

an image based even the close future. tried eBooks would patrons a variety of
augmented reality It’s already happening. never give up the small utensils they could
application. • The smart thing is that convenience borrow to use in the
• It clearly highlights the the drone can find you of a digital interface and reading room.
best use of AR in by the location of your all other helpful tools. • Here is the idea. The
libraries – locating the smartphone, so there is • FingerLink is a project real-to-digital
books on the shelves no need to give a fixed by Fujitsu that lets you highlighter would be
and navigating to them. address. use digital tools to work connected to a
• The app would point • Use the app to order a with a printed book. computer.
you to the new arrivals. book. The drone will • It’s a stand you can • When you highlight
• It would also be able come. Pull out the book put on a library desk. It something – move along
to find and point to from the box, and put includes two elements: the text in a print
similar books. Simple, the one or ones you a camera to read the book –it will
but useful, and very don’t need any longer. info from the real world, immediately appear in
probable. The drone will place and the projector to the notepad app on a
them where they display digital info in the computer. All your
belong. real world. highlights would be
collected in a single text
document.

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CLIMATE ANALYSIS

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AREA/VOLUME AND FUNCTION/ACTIVITIES ANALYSIS

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CHOICE JUSTIFICATION

SEVERAL MANAGEMENT SYSTEM FOR COMING AGE LIBRARIES

RADIO FREQUENCY IDENTIFICATION (RFID)

ADAPTIVE HVAC SYSTEM RAISED FLOOR ELECTRICAL SYSTEM
TAGS

Allows flexible Works on the

It is a hybrid
usage and is principle of radio
system of cooling
independent of frequency and
which uses both –
façade system and allows to keep
mechanical
flexible port & track of item’s
ventilation as well
connections allows location within
as natural
easy digital which the tag is
ventilation.
transformation. concealed.

HIGH DENSITY AUTOMATED STORAGE EARTH SHELTERING STACKING AND BOOK LOAD IMPLICATION

The system is a Earth acts The average live

combination of as thermal mass, load intensities
collective trays thus reducing heat also have a
and robots on a loss, making it tendency to
channel to retrieve easier to maintain increase due to
them. 1/7th of the a steady indoor air the acquisition of
space is only temperature. new editions or
occupied. new copies.

ACOUSTICAL CHALLENGES FOR READING

UNIVERSAL ACCESSIBILITY
ROOM

Sound reflective Design and

materials. Mix of composition that
people that want can be accessed,
to work in groups understood &
or read alone. used to greatest
Close proximity of extent possible by
book shelves, all regardless age
desks and tables. or disability.

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