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Some inspiration I used this week (old and new)…again, taking examples from my own personal experiences in visiting these places.

Liberty Science Center, NJ:

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These three pictures are all from the Liberty Science Center in NJ, where I would frequent as a child! It has a great number of rotating interactive exhibits which were always such a delight to play with as a kid — and it has a number of strategies it uses to organize play space. It can just be a more conventional playground (like the left), or play spaces can be suspended, or set in more exhibit-like atrium spaces (like the top left), or play areas can also take advantage of vertical spaces (like above).

Louisiana MoMA, Denmark (agaiN):

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I wrote about the Louisiana museum in several of my previous posts, but I wanted to just add another picture of it; the floor plan shows how integrated the exhibit space is with the circulation route! Circulation takes up more space than we think!

Lastly, the Rinconada Library, Palo Alto:

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It was hard to find good pictures of them, but the Rinconada Library here (which is part of the Palo Alto library system) has some wonderful enclosed courtyard spaces which I found super inspiring. I went there this past weekend to open a library card and spent some time just sitting in the courtyards — there are two that branch off on the north and south sides, and they are surrounded by tall, dense walls that don’t have egress points (i.e. to leave you need to go back inside first, and then go out the main exit). It gave the courtyards this semi-indoor-semi-outdoor type feeling.

Space design guidelines spreadsheet (linked below):

I know the bubble diagram is technically supposed to be in the Module 6 check-in, but I’ll post it here as well, since I think it’s a nice visual to have accompanying the spreadsheet, and I created it as a natural follow up to the spreadsheet.

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