Week 13 - Design Development

This week I have put together my floor plans, I'll redraw them soon, but for now I have my spaces sorted out. Red arrows indicate navigation around each level, blue lines indicate where the canopy goes.

 Ground Floor: 2 access points to building, leads to elevator, cafe, seating, garden area, cafe pit-stop (from window), kitchen (for cafe)

1st Floor: elevator access, leads to reception/help desk (storage room behind reception), display area near elevator/reception, data center (digital downloads), open study space and leads to more private study areas (still open, but some partitioning), stairs to mezzanine/lvl2, bathrooms, storage/maintenance closet.

2nd Floor/Mezzanine: stair/elevator access, function room and lounge area, office area

3rd Floor and diagrammatic section: the 3rd floor will have a small cinema as well as the plant room and room for library data servers (these will be on opposite side of cinema to minimize noise pollution, keeping these on top level will make maintenance easier because of road access and will keep some of the most expensive equipment away from potential flood damage).
Blue shows ground level; yellow shows level 1/library main area - note the way the pillars come down and are visible from both level 1 & 2; orange shows level 2/mezzanine and its view through the pillars; purple shows the cinema level - the shape of the ceiling below helps to shape the seating area; pink shows the roof access level - this has a lookout and roof garden and access to the building core elevators.

I think the design has progressed quite a lot, I just need to better communicate it through more precise drawings and a model. It interacts with the surrounding area, but I might delve into this a bit more when coming up with the model. It maintains the interactive aspect which was part of our folie's main purpose - leading people into the structure and creating an interactive surrounding through the form.