balancing the size+proposition

experimenting size of functions

-urban room in-between institution and books

-retails in-between books and urban room

-institution size = cafes+retail

what other functions could there be?

Creating Form from a single Image

I'm interested in these ideas of overlapping and layering to create more abstract depictions of our experiences in urban situation. Indeed, architects often use abstractions to develop concepts and visualise ideas. These sketches by Daniel Libeskind could easily be mistaken for poster design or designs belonging to a car advertisement. Although not all from the same project, it is clear to see how these form the basis of Libeskind's completed structure.

Maybe this process can help me find out new form? ...hm..

Site photos

I decided to simply present my work as I see it, rather than attempting to relate it to library (study place) anymore. The only way to illustrate "combined space (Library with urban rooms, study place with community place)" was to use my own work. I took the photos of site and simply overlap them together. This means that I am presenting abstract imagery whilst at the same time blabbing on collapsing of space and time.

Overlapping, abstraction, linkage, interception, timechanges, moveable?, wall-multiple layers, glass-transparency, movement, interconnected network of flexible bands, time conveying architecture, importance of layout, photography of Christian Kusters&Anja luts

some writings about Library

-Library is the ideal architectural metaphor for the institution. We often think of the interface as the computer or video screen, the boundary between the digital universe inside the screen and the physical world outside. But the interface is not only a new media concept; it is also the page, the audio speaker, the medium's input and output devices, the point at which a user accesses content. where mediated world meets "Real" world.

-Library as interface is a 'surface forming a common boundary of two bodies, space, or phases between inside and outside, between the library's civic functions and internal program, between public and private.

-Past, Present and future nothion in space

Research

These are some topics that can be used for my thesis from a book called 'The New Downtown Library' by Shannon Mattern

1.The Need For a New Library

2. The public Library, Urban Sprawl and the Information Age

-Library as Community centre

-Library in urban revitalisation (easily accessible from public transportation)

-eg. Brookly Visual & Performing Art library's programmatic elements: Public & congregation space on the ground floor, media space in the middle, and administrative space at the top

-Library as Civic Icon: lot of many countries are building New international or public Libraries in large scale with new programs and forms, then what about dead suburban ones? They need to be developed and built with new system too.

3. Form for Function

-The Architecture of New Libraries with a physical and programmatic link to the residential neighborhoods to the city

-Logic of New Form: Seattle library;
the 5 platform, each a programmatic cluster that is architecturally defined and equipped for maximum, dedicated performance. Each platform is designed for a unique purpose, they are different in size, density, and opacity. The in-between spaces are like trading floors where librarians inform and stimulate, where the inferface between the different platforms is organised- space for work, interaction, and play (and reading)

4. Reinventing the Public Square; libraries and nonmedia programming

- Library with outdoor activities?

- Library with Connection to the outdoor house shops?

-Mixed use public space: All things to all people?

5. Open stacks; negotiating space for media

-reading room: "devise a strategy where the books are given their place, are given their repectful environment, are given their value, but are also contained" so that space is also reserved for nonbook media and public activities.

-Balancing Analog and Digital

6. Away from the Desk

- New modes of librarianship; some librarians fitted with headsets

Monday meeting

I will bring more conceptual models and some drawings of site to start investigate the 'form' for my library.

Boundary Diagram of public spaces

My site is in 'Greenwoods Corner' at the intersection between Manukau Road and Pah Road; Epsom, One tree hill and Onehunga. Near my site, there are two schools and Epsom community centre. Also there is Cornwall park which is a pretty large spot in Auckland that lot of people often have BBQs and have leisure.

Parts I have painted with black are buildings for public such as retails, hospitals, restaurants, cafes, institutions etc. I think I have several opportunities to bring some of these public space functions with my library for this region.

My library will not be a building for only to study and learn, it will be 'combined' with many functions such as exhibitions, public living room and cafes with balance.

Koolhaas's Seattle Public library

"The stacks, arranged along a continuous spiral ramp contained within a four-story slab, reinforce a sense of a world organised with machine-like precision"

New Seattle Public Library houses the library's main collection of books, government publications, periodicals, audio visual materials and the technology to access and distribute information from the physical collection online.

The building is divided into eight horizontal layers, each varying in size to fit its function. A structural steel and glass skin unifies the multifaceted form and defines the public space in-between.

Koolhaas sees the new library as a custodian of the books, a showcase for new information, a place for thought, discussion and reflection- a dynamic presence.

"The fact that the contents of a whole library can be stored on a single chip, or the fact that a single library can now store the digital content of all libraries, together represent potential rethinking: new form of storage enable the space dedicated to real books to be contained; new forms of reading enhance the aura of the real book.
Our first operation has been the "combining" and consolidation of the apparently ungovernable proliferation of programs and media. By combining like with like, we have identified five platforms, each a programmatic cluster that is architecturally defined and equipped for maximum, dedicated performance. Because each platform is designed for a unique purpose, they are different in size, density, opacity.

The in-between space are like trading floors where librarians inform and stimulate, where the interface between the different platforms is organised- spaces for work, interaction, and play(and reading)"

Lightspace

This is an international library of children's literature by an architect Ando Tadao. This building was recognised in comparison to any other old libraries by having overall atmospheres of bright, transparent and airy.

Book collections were placed in the wall by stairway and stairways became a place to sit for the children. In this library there are no sign of 'silence', this library allows free movement.

Questions

Few questions came up while I was thinking about this thesis;

-What purpose does silence serve in a library of team-based electronic learning?

-What is the right balance of provision between social space and study space?

-In the electronic library, do we need rooms at all or just a large open marketplace of digital interation?

-Ultimately is open space more important than rooms or, given the library's social or cultural role, is the provision of snack bars and cafes as important as the study collection?

-Is the electronic library a large flexible interactive space or should there be rooms inthe sense of enclosure of subject territory?