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PERRAULT (TGB) Paris
KAHN Exeter Library
Public Space as Public Library - THE WHITE LINE Ester Van de Wiel & Jurgen Bey
Rem Koolhaas
OMA
“To reformulate the idea of communal facility, an entity in the midst of a complete collapse of the public realm. Against the homogeneization of electronic media, against the erasure of the necessity of a place, against the triumph of fragmentation�
BERNARD TSCHUMI proposal for the National Library of France (TGB) Paris, 1989
CIRCUITS AND MOVEMENT The program was about circuits and movement - movement for scholars, books, and visitors -and so
the entire architectural scheme was developed around a constant dynamic. visitors' and administrators’ circuits, books circuits, electronic circuits and mechanical circuits. While each has its own logics and set of rules,
the circuits constantly interact at strategic locations.
CIRCUITS AND MOVEMENT
CIRCUITS AND MOVEMENT
EVENT VS FROZEN MONUMENT Locating a running track over the library embodied the building's complex role in PROGRAM developing an urban a determinate set of expected strategy that was expressed in the open actions circuit. The library was seen as an EVENT “event� rather than as a an inderteminate set of frozen monument. unexpected outcomes
EVENT VS FROZEN MONUMENT Opening simultaneously onto the Seine River and onto the rest of the world through the internal circuits of library culture, the building was
intended to act as an urban generator for a new part of the city.
EVENT VS FROZEN MONUMENT Opening simultaneously onto the Seine River and onto the rest of the world through the internal circuits of library culture, the building was
intended to act as an urban generator for a new part of the city.
EVENT VS FROZEN MONUMENT Opening simultaneously onto the Seine River and onto the rest of the world through the internal circuits of library culture, the building was
intended to act as an urban generator for a new part of the city.
EVENT VS FROZEN MONUMENT
Rituals, 1978: movement as a generator for a new
CONTEXT: Cedric Price generator 1976-1979 , unbuild
ritual 01: the dance
Rituals, 1978: movement as a generator ritual 02: the chase
ritual 01: the fight
The house: a movement diagram becomes architecture
Rituals, 1978: movement as a generator
Zurich, K-Polis Department Store, 1995
Vector Vector movement as a generator A ramp ascends in a random manner and intersects all parts of the building. Like a long vector of movement, the ramp activates the building, defining intensity and areas of use
Static space, dynamic route: the simple circulation space of the ramps allows for a multiplicity of heterogeneous functions developing around it. Not about forms but about forces. An “in-between� space activated by movement vectors.
New York, Lerner Hall Student Center Columbia University, 1994-1999
Vector Vector movement as a generator
Static space, dynamic route: the simple circulation space of the ramps allows for a multiplicity of heterogeneous functions developing around it. Not about forms but about forces. An “in-between” space activated by movement vectors.
The field wings needs toforbe Two generic – one studios, the other offices – irrigated withforpotential define a central unprogrammed space activated “generators” containing the more public functions of the program. Here, too, the unprogrammed space is the place for appropiation, the potential place of the occasional event.
Marne-la-Vallee, School of Architecture, 1994
Vector movement as a generator activators
Vector movement as a generator activators There is a promise that on an open field, anything can happen. [‌] But that openess is deceiving. The field needs to be “irrigated with potentialâ€? to use Rem Koolhaas suggestive phase. (Stan Allen)
“ (‌) reformulate the idea of communal facility, an entity in the midst of a complete collapse of the public realm. Against the homogeneization of electronic media, against the erasure of the necessity of a place, against the triumph of fragmentationâ€?
OMA
temporary vs. permanent
regularity vs. freedom
excitement vs. clarity indeterminancy vs. specificity
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“ (…) at some point we admitted that the whole point of urbanism became secondary (…) in just putting it there, we discovered another way of dealing with the city”
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“ (…) In an age where information can be accesed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and professionalism of their presentation and interaction, what makes the library new. “ OMA
Dercon is a staunch believer in the public museum's role as a unique testing ground, a place of learning and development. "Where else in our society can you work in an environment where you don't have to take anything for granted? Where you can say, 'Let's interrupt. Let's start things anew. Let's interrogate ourselves?'" he says. "Also, it's the only environment where you can constantly look at the present and the future through the eyes of the old. In the media, there's a dictatorship of the very new. In a museum, you bring things together that only have a meaning because they are in a museum or because you juxtapose them with other things. That's an amazing, amazing form of geniality. And also, museums never have to be finished. It's a constant process of transformation."
Cataloguing to Curating
Are today’s libraries ready to transform itself ? Librarians are ready to change their professionalism responding to new demand.
The Sitterwerk Art Library as an example for a small, highly spezialed Library for Art and Materials
The library knows exactly where the book is at any time Traditional cataloguing systems are not necessary any more‌
The library knows what‘s on your desk…
Start with your own search in the catalogue …or start with chosing a selection
Start with your own Search in the Catalogue …or Start with chosing a selection
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Amazon‘s p personalized search
Google sophisticated way of managing and providing information
Patron Relationship THE GROUPE INTELLIGENCE LIGENCE
Patron A
Patron Relationship elationship
Patron A
Patron B
Patron atron Relationship
Patron A
Patron B Patron C
Lawrence Barth
AA
Are today’s libraries ready to transform itself ? Librarians are ready to change their professionalism responding to new demand.
The Future of Knowledge
The Future of Knowledge
Spatialization (confinement) of knowledge / curiosity
Medieval Library
Public Library (17th century)
Printing press (1450)
Reformation and propaganda (16th century)
Enlightenment (the middle of the 17th century (1650))
Industrial revolution (1750 to 1850)
Modern Public Library
sought to create conditions for shifting,
changing personal interaction in a reconfigurable and responsive architectural project.
CONTEXT: Cedric Price generator 1976-1979 , unbuild
A building which will not contradict, but enhance, the feeling of being in the middle of nowhere; has to be accessible to the public as well as to private guests; has to create a feeling of seclusion conducive to creative impulses, yet ... accommodate audiences; has to respect the wildness of the environment while accommodating a grand piano; has to respect the continuity of the history of the place while being innovative. Price developed a scheme of 150 12' by 12' recombinable, mobile cubes with off-the-shelf infill panels, glazing and sliding glass doors; catwalks; screens and boardwalks, all of which could be moved by mobile crane as desired by users to support whatever activities they
had in mind, whether public or private, serious or banal.
Rituals, 1978: movement as a generator for a new
If you wonder whether the spaces you design are affected by the events that take place in them; if you wonder whether the experience of a certain space will be altered by, say, a birthday party as opposed to a rehearsal for a wake; than you will want to carry such questions to their ultimate consequences by taking temporary events (as opposed to permanent functions) and merging them in architectural spaces. Of course, people do not let themselves be manipulated by the way spaces are. There re ceremonies that
determine space, and spaces that determine ceremonies. “Rituals� treats the former, for the latter still carry reminiscences of early twentieth-century behaviorism. Here, the ceremonies, or rather these rituals (after all, a ritual is a formilized event in the same way that architecture is a formalized space) determine a set of spaces.
They regulate these spaces.
OMA / Rem Koolhaas
A connected world Knowledge transfer just in time
The Information Age: Economy – Society – Culture The Rise of the Network Society
Public Space as Public Library - THE WHITE LINE Proposal by Ester van de Wiel & Jurgen Bey (Research Group, NAI “The Architecture of Knowledge“)
Public Space as Public Library - THE WHITE LINE Proposal by Ester van de Wiel & Jurgen Bey (Research Group, NAI “The Architecture of Knowledge“
Translate knowledge - Transfer Knowledge Exchange of Knowledge - Extension of the Head You only understand it when you see it. The physical Library is still very important. The Transportation Line as corridor declared as a public library. This location possesses several characteristics that correspond with the advantages of both the physical library and the Internet. - Accessibility 24/7/365 - Great Diversity
The Librarian is responsible for computer-aided quality control
Simple traditional librarys
Regional Library of Saxony – State library and Dresden University library
Storage Study Café
Regional Library of Saxony
Under ground
Above ground
Regional Library of Saxony – State library and Dresden University library
Regional Library of Saxony – State library and Dresden University library