This is a quick section sketch I did of the Paul Sawier public library in Frankfort, KY.  I need to go out sketching more to practice those hand muscles, because I felt clumsy and uncertain of myself at this first documentation sketch I’ve made in several weeks.

Through the primary entrance and 8 sided lantern/oculus

My section doesn’t capture this well enough to my liking, but as you go in the primary entrance to the library, you enter a wall of 4″ deep display casework with sliding glass doors, and then enter a hollow metal door frame with transom light to enter the circulation area.  Above that entrance, the ceiling rises to 18″ higher, and you can see an 8 sided lantern that looks into a second 8 sided lantern above you, and from that you can see the sky above.

I went up to the second floor (children’s wing) and stood at the large glass lantern, looking down into the space where I had just stood at the entrance.  I then looked up, and out to the sky - and saw that there are side walls outside of the second lantern that conceal roof conditions (stucco with a metal edge trim around the top).  One the second floor, a column separates some computer spaces lit by a chandelier, and a open web truss carries the roof load down to the exterior wall on a slant.

Looking at my drawing, I needed to make some small thumbnail sketches before I started to describe what I wanted to say graphically.  I also missed the entrance foyer hallway and the steps down to grade, which really accents this vertical relationship that I’m trying to show.

I need to go and draw it again.

My paper looks yellow in my scanned image, yet my acid-free paper in my sketchbook is white.  I will look at the scanner settings before I try to post another sketch.  Any tips or advise how to make this look better?  There is also a little bit of the scan from my previous page visible in the top right corner, so perhaps I need to start my next sketch on a clean page front and back to prevent this from happening.