Tuesday, June 10, 2008

Form....The Vertical Streetscape...

The target of this facility is "permanent regional safety and education and training facility in the form of a real village." It aims to target 6th grade students positioning itself as "interactive interventions for the prevention of injuries."

Seattle Public Library

"Straight ahead are the stacked and overlapping platforms that support the reading rooms and open areas equipped with computer work stations. Central to the building is a four-tier "Books Spiral" housing the nonfiction collection. This gently sloping pedestrian route, with stairs, ramps, and escalators, is sequenced according to the Dewey Decimal System. It has a capacity for 1.4 million books and other materials."

— Robert Such, ArchitectureWeek No. 236

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

By grade 6, do you mean kids in 6th grade? I'm a little lost!

Jodi said...

i will change...sorry! yes 6th grade