Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] library photos?

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Tue, 3 Sep 2002, Dave Lloyd wrote:

> You know, I'm looking at the aerial photos and the first thing that 
> springs to mind is "crop circle."

Weirdly enough, that's the one decision they made that has a completely
reasonable explanation (the fact that it's all a circle).  Summarizing 
from the Q/A thing in the special Library section of the paper, it went 
like this:

   1) We need to build a building twice as large as before, but have
      more parking spaces than were provided in 1971.
   2) Unfortunately, we have a big-time height restriction that they
      are never going to change in a big way.
   3) The neighborhood around us is densely residential, and we have
      to do something to make a transition between our new giant building 
      and all the surrounding stuff.
   4) To get enough floor space, a lot of the building will have to go
      closer to the road, but not look like it's all too close.

So the answer was: make it all circular, so you can plant stuff in the
corner gaps, get close to the street but then back away gracefully, and
a circle minimizes the perimeter of the site for a given size.

Or something like that.

jking


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