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The Louisville Project

The Louisville Project. July 18, 2006. MIT Design Lab, Americans for Libraries Council, and the Louisville Free Public Library. The Louisville Project. Site 3: Northeast. Our Approach to Trade-offs. Create Lounge/café spaces Parents hang out while kids enjoy

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The Louisville Project

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  1. The Louisville Project July 18, 2006 MIT Design Lab, Americans for Libraries Council, and the Louisville Free Public Library

  2. The Louisville Project Site 3: Northeast

  3. Our Approach to Trade-offs • Create • Lounge/café spaces • Parents hang out while kids enjoy • Nearby workers take a break for lunch alone or in groups away from office • A sense of public space with a park-like feel (an oasis in a sea of pavement). • Model of responsible public architecture in the east end • Reduce • Walling-off the staff behind closed doors • the “cram the books into the space and then see if there’s space for anything else” approach • One designated “Computer area” • (make them pervasive) • Eliminate • Reference section as a space (but • enhance as a function) • Single checkout points (flexible and automated) • Rigid policy on “no drinking and eating” in a library • Raise • Age-specific focus in the design • 0-5 year • 5-12 • Teens • Emphasis on having young people associate “success experiences” in the library setting • (acknowledge and cater to different learning types) LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  4. Detail on the Young People • Age Group • 0-5 years old • 5-12 • Teens • Goals • Nurture pre-literacy skills • Educate parents & Care-givers • Enhance library experience • Nurture & celebrate success • Support educational endeavors • bring them in/keep ‘em coming in • Highlight the possibilities • Means • Interactive Displays • Modeling for parents • Put books on the floor-level • Peer-to-peer learning • Collection reflective of reading levels • Kids providing the content • Celebrate achievement • Programming tied to the collection • Create “with” not “for” • Coolness factor • Make their own rules of the road • collaboration LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  5. LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  6. LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  7. LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  8. LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + American’s for Libraries Council

  9. Charrette Participants • Bill Mitchell – director, MIT Design Lab; director, MIT Smart Cities Project • Ryan Chin – MIT Research Associate in Media Arts and Design • Marcel Botha – MIT Research Associate in Architecture • Edward “Tad” Hirsch – MIT Research Associate in the Smart Cities Project • Kenfield Griffith – MIT Research Associate in Architecture • William Schickling – President and CEO, Polaris Library Systems • Toni Garvey – director, Phoenix Public Library • Cindy Read –exec. director of the KY Institute for Family Literacy; immediate past chair of the KY community college system board • Ed Kruger – architect at Bravura Inc. in Louisville • Matthew Barzun –Founder and CEO of Brickpath.com; former chief strategy officer for CNET Networks • Graham Cooke – LFPL assistant director; former co-owner of a chain of independent bookstores • Craig Buthod – LFPL director LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

  10. Charrette Staff Susan Imholz, ALC Bruce Astrein, ALC Caitlin Maloney, ALC Lee Burchfield, LFPL Laura Hardaway, University of Kentucky School of Architecture LOUISVILLE CHARRETTE Louisville Free Public Library + MIT Design Laboratory + Americans for Libraries Council

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