02 Think Tank Library Design Guide / Jackilin Hah Bloom Scale / Library Location / Atlanta, Geogia Collaborator / Hou Sheng Wang KeywordsContainers as metaphor Precarious Tenuous Monolithic posture Vaccum form technique Interdependent spaces Envelope tectonic
Unlike the existing Atlanta Central Library by Marcel Breuer, a singular stepped mass with its monolithic materiality, we examine tenuous agglomerations through assembly of multiple volumes to redefine a library’s monolithicposture in the city.A library is a physical container of knowledge and all the mediums in which knowledge is distributed.As these mediums transition from physical books to be taken off shelves to intangible bits to be stored and accessed remotely, the library’s role as a public asset and destination for information, will inevitably change. How do we envision an ever changing paradigm of information and its formal container?We approached the library as a cultural monolith in the city, but with precarious postures. In order to redefine library’s monolithic posture in the city, we began to organize it under its most basic metaphor as a container. We began by looking at a jumbled mass of different types of containers, like, jute bags, bath tubs, vending machines etc.We explored its various agglomerations through a collage. These groupings are examined based on their shapes and how they interact with the ground, edge and sky. Left image // Section view of the library buidling proposal
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