The library program has experienced continued evolvement of spatial conditions with respect to technological advancements and the changing needs of the general public. Recent precedents have begun to remove physical book stacks from the user experience in exchange for improved efficiency of space. There is value in maintaining the presence of book stacks because it is a gesture towards tradition and the "existence will" of the program. This thesis explores the organization of the three program components which define the ideal modern library: archive, social, and digital media spaces. Considering modern libraries offer more communally charged programmatic spaces, maintaining the integration of archive spaces throughout the scheme can strengthen the gradient of public to private conditions. The collective balance of the archive, social, and digital media spaces gives communities the opportunity to come together for ideal intergenerational exchange and co-creation. / Master of Architecture / The library program has experienced continued evolvement of spatial conditions with respect to technological advancements and the changing needs of the general public. Recent building precedents are removing physical book stacks from the user experience in exchange for improved efficiency of space. There is value in maintaining the presence of book stacks because it serves as a gesture towards tradition and preserves the "life" of the building. This thesis explores the organization of the three program components within the ideal modern library: archive, social, and digital media spaces. Considering modern libraries offer more communally charged programmatic spaces, maintaining the integration of archive spaces throughout the scheme can strengthen the gradient of public to private conditions. The collective balance of the archive, social, and digital media spaces gives communities the opportunity to come together for ideal intergenerational exchange and co-creation.

Wireless systems are rapidly developing to provide high speed voice, text and multimedia messaging services which were traditionally offered by wire line networks. To support these services, channels with large capacities are required. Information theoretic investigations have shown that Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) channels can achieve very high capacities. Space-Time Block Coding (STBC) and Bell Labs Layered Space-Time Architecture (BLAST) are two potential schemes which utilize the diversity offered by MIMO channels to provide reliable high date rate wireless communication. This work studies the sensitivity of these two schemes to spatial correlation in MIMO channels. The first part of the thesis studies the effect of spatial correlation on the performance of STBC by using Geometrically Based Single Bounce MIMO (GBSB-MIMO) channel models. Performance is analyzed for two scenarios: one without scatterers in the vicinity of the transmitter and other with scatterers. In the second part of the thesis, the sensitivity of BLAST to spatial correlation is analyzed. Later, schemes which use the principles of Multilayered Space-Time Coded Modulation to combine the benefits of BLAST and STBC are introduced and their performance is investigated in correlated and uncorrelated Rayleigh fading. Results indicate that schemes using orthogonal design space-time block codes are reasonably robust to spatial correlation while schemes like BLAST are very sensitive as they depend on array processing to separate signals from various transmit antennas. / Master of Science