Project #3: Light

EXETER BUILDING RESEARCH

NARRATIVE

Farmingdale State college has requested to build a chapel on campus for a place of worship. This chapel will be free to any religion. The main chapel can consist of 50 people along with the memorial and meditation chapel. The location was key to getting the best sunlight on campus.

Hierarchy:

Main chapel
Memorial chapel
Meditation chapel

BACKGROUND OF THE EXETER BUILDING

The Exeter building is located at Phillips Exeter Academy.

•The project took fifteen years to finally be built.

•Consists of 250,000 volumes of books

•It is also mentioned as the Class of 1945 Library.

•The Library was designed by the architect Louis Kahn.

exeter image.png	exeter image 7.png	exeter image 6.png
exeter image 5.png	exeter image 4.png	exeter image 3.png
exeter image 2.png

CONCLUSION

•The natural lighting scheme is successful in achieving appropriate lighting levels for the reading areas and book stacks without separating them in different floors.

•This promotes continuity between these two activities.

•The central hall lighting brings an inviting entrance to all students of the Phillips Exeter Academy.

•The lighting for the central hall brings a sneak peek into the book stacks making the library more inviting to wander around the book stacks.

SITE ANALYSIS

sun calc.png

CHOSEN SPACE.png

SITE PLAN IMAGE.png

CIRCULATION.png

SPATIAL.png

FORMS.png

FINISH.png

OCCUPATION.png

FUNCTION.png

PRELIMINARY MODELS

MODEL 1.jpg

LIGHT MODEL 3.png

MODEL 2.jpg

LIGHT MODEL 2.png

MODEL 3.jpg

LIGHT MODEL 1.png

FLOOR PLAN/CIRCULATION

CHAPEL FLOOR PLAN.png

FINAL DESIGN

FRONT VIEW OF CHAPEL.png	SOUTHEAST VIEW OF CHAPEL.png	RIGHT VIEW OF CHAPEL.png
BACK VIEW OF CHAPEL.png	LEFT SIDE OF CHAPEL.png	SOUTHWEST VIEW OF CHAPEL.png
FRONT OPENING OF MAIN CHAPEL.png	SITE PLAN CHAPEL.png	section of memorial 2.png
section of main chapel.png	section of meditation.png	sunlight images 1.png
sunlight image 2.png	sunlight image 3.png	sunlight image 4.png