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Municipal Archives — Mobile Shelving & Digitization Lab
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CASE ANALYSIS
Scenario
A compact municipal archives needs a single-floor layout separating public research spaces from secure storage and digitization workflows.
Key decisions
- Used right-of and below chaining to arrange six rooms in an 18×10 m orthogonal footprint with no overlapping rectangles.
- Represented compact mobile shelving as a 3×2 grid of shelving units within the storage room to model compact, high-density archives.
- Separated public areas (lobby and reading room) from staff-only zones (digitization lab, conservation lab, and storage) using controlled interior doors.
- Added a keep-clear zone for the storage aisle and placed exterior windows/doors only on valid facade walls.
When to reuse this
When documenting or planning compact urban archives, records centers, or library back-of-house spaces that combine mobile shelving with digitization and conservation functions.
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