Re: [Seattle Go Center] Re: Building Development -- Feedback for New Space Design ?

All excellent points

Best,    Chris Kirschner,  AGA VP - Planning  Phone 206-579-8071

Dear Bill-- 

 

Thanks for sending the draft functional needs document.  Here's my 2 cents, as a lifetime member:

 

The current Go Center feels to me a lot like the pinball room in the Harvard Freshman dining hall:  a space that could be beautiful and relaxing, and is, in fact, beautiful in its "bones", but which has been attacked by the junky rec-room aesthetic of a bunch of game-obsessed young men.  I don't mind the game obsession, but I would really like to get away from the junked-up rec-room aesthetic.  For example: the glass display cases look like some store that was going out of business offered them to the Go Center and the Go Center accepted them, without worrying about how the cases would affect the look and feel of playing space and how they would dominate a large part of the room.  I hate them.  I'm sure we could offer the Go-equipment service to our members without including what looks like a run-down and understocked retail space in the middle of our nice new playing room.  Perhaps a more compact, narrow, tall case in the library area???  Or how about dumping cases altogether in favor of  just a paper and/or online catalog, with items to be retrieved from the storage space?

 

Other junky rec-room aesthetics I hate, which the functional-needs document doesn't address: 

 

●the front desk with the papers all around and the messy stuff on the surface.  The reception area should be neat and be easy to keep neat;  papers and any computer should be easily hidden, for example,  behind a taller front (like a doctor's office)

● chairs stacked in the corner and not-in use Go Equipment piled on side tables.  We need cupboards for the non-in-use equipment and a closet for extra chairs

● standing coat rack in the middle of the room which looks like it was stolen from a sidewalk in the Garment District.  We need an actual coat closet, or maybe a few sturdy, attractive coat trees, which at least wouldn't look like they were better suited to a rummage sale display

● Public computer area is often messy, partly because there it is hard to keep it tidy.  Maybe cubicles like they have at the library would help?

 

Those are some of the aesthetic decisions the Go Center has made in the past which make the space feel less that calm and welcoming.

 

Deborah

 

From: seattlego@googlegroups.com <seattlego@googlegroups.com> On Behalf Of Bill Chiles
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 6:02 PM
To: seattlego@googlegroups.com
Subject: [Seattle Go Center] Re: Building Development -- Feedback for New Space Design ?

 

Sorry, I forgot the document ...

 

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From: seattlego@googlegroups.com <seattlego@googlegroups.com> on behalf of Bill Chiles <billchiles-gocenter@hotmail.com>
Sent: Friday, April 16, 2021 6:00 PM
To: seattlego@googlegroups.com <seattlego@googlegroups.com>
Subject: [Seattle Go Center] Building Development -- Feedback for New Space Design ?

 

 

Folks,

 

We will likely move into our new space in 2025, which seems a long way from now, but the development committee is already engaging with architects to consider the beginning design work for our new digs in the new building. The long lead time is actually about normal for a project this size (23 stories in all.)

 

We want to keep you informed and also invite your feedback.  Attached, you will find our document describing the functional needs (kitchen, main playing area, office, reception, lounging area, etc.) we think we need to accommodate in the design.  Please take a look, and let us know if you have ideas to add, revise, or functions not mentioned, etc.

 

The Design Committee -- Lucy, Lusha, Chris, and Bill

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