The building has
five floors and is divided into two parts. The old building is a standard
enclosed multi-storey teaching building with a 12m column span. The main space
has no inner columns. The rooms are on both sides of and the walkway is in middle.
This is a very common old-style layout design, which balances the cost and
function. The central courtyard also brings more natural lighting. Most
functional spaces are not deeper than 9 m. The new building is an extension to
the old part. The main spaces inside it are large laboratories and computer
rooms. It is conceivable that these functional spaces need to be further
expanded. The structure should be steel.
According to rough
statistics, there are 16,000 square meters, 10,000 old and 6000 new. The height
of the storey should be 4.5 meters on the first floor and 3.5 meters on the
upper floor. The specific statistics of each functional area and analysis of
its characteristics will be written in another article.
Features:
1. Teaching
laboratory, which has 60 seats and 2 people share one screen
2. Research
laboratories are fully equipped which have two specifications
3. The preparation
area of the laboratory is larger than I thought, and the temperature of
various cold storage spaces is not the same. There is also a dark room
4. 5 stairs, 2
elevators, but not enough
5. Every
laboratory is equipped with an emergency shower, it seems that doing
experiments is really dangerous
6. Large rest
space, equipped with simple heating and refrigerator. Maybe some necessary
socializing is really helpful for these people who are stuck in their lab
7. Single offices
for teachers and doctors, which are arranged in large rows. Each of them is not
too large
8. There are only
a few small meeting rooms and there may be no need of a big one
9. There are
greenhouses on the roof to cultivate plants and small insects. It is sait that
there are animals center in other buildings.
10. There is no
dedicated classroom and no large speech space but many computer space
11. A large garden in the middle , full of plants and a nice pool
Needs:
1. More elevators
and walkways to facilitate the transportation of goods
2. More storage
space, it seems that they have filled up the existing space
3. The special
unloading site should have requirements on the size
4. The exhibition
space for displaying research results.
Deficiencies:
1. Insufficient
communication, only the space and no related activities, except for some
specific parties. Different groups of people do not have enough reasons to
interact
2. The streamline
is too long and the guidance is so poor. This is a common problem of this kind
of layout.
Sum up:
The plan is merging
the 6 biological buildings on the campus into one, which is the current design.
I suspect that the other 5 buildings should not be too large, otherwise it will
not fit into the new building of 30,000 square meters. Under the current
virtual premise, kindergartens and safety buildings are not occupied. Then the
allocation of area is very important. I am currently considering equal
proportion reduction, which means keeping the proportion unchanged.
I plan to refer to
the area allocation of the existing Thomas building, combined with more digital
teaching concepts in the future, which leads to more computer space. And I should
actively encourage the interaction of different groups of people, create
activities to guide the use of space.
