1. Rosegarden Branch Library San Jose, CA
Miory Kanashiro
Lighting/Electrical Option
Primary Consultant: Professor Mistrick

2. Outline Background Introduction Design Process Exterior façade
Computer Room
Circulation Area
Storytelling Area
Breadth

3. Background Location: San Jose, CA Town population: 894943
Ave. Temperature: ~48.7 F (Jan.) F (Sept.)
Town population:
Area: 2 floors spanning 33,228 sqft
Multi-functional:
Library
Conference Rooms
Cyber-café

4. Symbol
The SUN:
WARM
INVITING
Children and Adults should all WANT to go to the Library and read a book.
Stimulates their imagination
Creates a warm and cozy feeling where people will forget about their problems and focus on reading.

5. Exterior facade

6. Exterior Façade: Design Goals
Attract
Invite
Represent knowledge=power
Make the library shine at night
Highlight
Emphasize geometry and different architectural features
Vertical Levels
Materials

7. Use Area used for circulation in front of building
Entering and exiting building
Pedestrians walking on sidewalk up and down streets

8. Interior Spaces to re-design
Exterior facade
In light yellow

9. Lamps chosen
Cylindrical
facade
luminaire
Focal Floodlight

10. Rendering – North West View
Bollards

11. Rendering – North view

12. Rendering - West view
0.03 W/sqft

13. Interior Spaces Focus on : Children’s psychology Fun atmosphere
READING IS FUN!

14. Computer room - Goals Uniform lighting on task area
Even vertical illuminance
Avoid glare on VDT screens
Enough illuminance for reading, research, writing, play computer games

15. Computer Rm. - Design Concept
Appealing to children
Geometrical luminairs
Light fixtures are tied in together with other areas (circles theme)
Soft uplight
Simple design
Calm area

16. Reflected Ceiling Plan
Suspended ceiling
Pendants

17. Floor plan of Children’s Computer Area

18. Rendering
~1.6 W/sqft

19. Computer Room

20. Circulation and Storytelling Areas
Circulation Area

21. Circulation Area
Circulation Area
In green

22. Design Approach for interior
Create an environment filled with MAGIC and FAIRY-TALE stories.
Stimulates imagination
Creates warm, cozy feeling
People will forget about problems and focus on reading.

23. Children’s Circulation
Provide even distribution of light
Use light fixtures with a clean look
Indirect/direct lighting on top of shelves
Lighting that does not produce shadows in isles
Lighting for shelves should be adequate for reading books and documents

24. Reflected Ceiling Plan of Children’s Circulation Area with downlights

25. Circulation with downlights

26. Reflected Ceiling Plan of Children’s Circulation Area 1

27. Rendering of Circulation Area 2

28. Storytelling Area
Storytelling Area
In fuchsia

29. Storytelliing area ceiling

30. Rendering of Lighting Design

31. LED ceiling and seating area

32. Circulation Area

33. Materials used
Circular protrusions over storytelling and circulation area
Materials:
69% transparency material

34. Breadth- CM Aesthetics Mold- warm humid climate
Current system – carpet
32 oz nylon plush carpet with circular patterns
New system-congoleum resilient floor tiles.
Pros and cons
Resilient: $47,487.66
Carpeting: $67,645.69
Difference: $20,158.03

35. Thank you for your time.
Special thanks to:
~my family
~Professors Mistrick & Parfitt for their patience.
~my AE fellow classmates who kept me awake at late hours in the thesis lab
If you can dream it, you can do it. --Walt Disney
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