PYTHIA

PYTHIA

by: Omar Kakar

2012 Undergrad. Architecture Thesis Prep. for 2013 B.Arch.

This book serves to exhibit the thesis’ conceptual framework - establishing the scales, sites, programs, methods and terms of critique - acting as a manual for the design thesis proposal during the following semester.

Pythia

[pith-ee-uh] noun Greek Mythology

The priestess of Apollo at Delphi who delivered the oracles. Apollo: God of music, poetry, plague, oracles, sun, medicine, light and knowledge. Distinctively, this female was essentially the highest authority both civilly and religiously in male-dominated ancient Greece. She responded to the questions of citizens, foreigners, kings, and philosophers on issues of political impact, war, duty, crime, laws—even personal issues. The usual theory has been that the Pythia delivered oracles in a frenzied state induced by vapors rising from a chasm in the rock, and that she spoke gibberish which priests interpreted as the enigmatic prophecies preserved in Greek literature. The oracle's powers were highly sought after and never doubted. She allegedly also proclaimed Socrates to be the wisest man in Greece, to which Socrates said that, if so, this was because he alone was aware of his own ignorance. After this confrontation, Socrates dedicated his life to a search for knowledge that was one of the founding events of western philosophy. He claimed that she was "an essential guide to personal and state development." This Oracle's last recorded response was given in 393 AD, when the emperor Theodosius I ordered pagan temples to cease operation.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

BEFORE WE BEGIN_________________________________________

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WHAT ARE WE TALKING ABOUT? W.W.W.W.W.H.

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PART1 RETHINKING INFORMATION___________________________________________________ PAGE 5 INTRO 7 STATEMENT 15 HISTORY 19 PRESENT & FUTURE 27

PART 2 ENTER THE VOID___________________________________________________________ PAGE MONOLITH TECTONICS CASE STUDIES

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PART 3 ANAYLSIS___________________________________________________________________ PAGE 57 AUGMENTED REALITY 63 PROGRAM 65 SITE 67

BEFORE ...WE BEGIN I WANT TO EXPLICITLY, DIRECT AND TO THE POINT, ADDRESS WHAT THIS PROJECT IS ABOUT. 1

MONOLITH MONOLITH LIBRARIES WHAT ARE INFORMATION MONOLITH LIBRARIES WE TECHNOLOGY LIBRARIES MONOLITH INFORMATION TALKING LIBRARIES MONOLITH TECHNOLOGY ABOUT? LIBRARIES MONOLITH 2

THIS IS AN UNDERGRAD ARCHITECTURE THESIS PROJECT. IF YOU’RE GOING TO WALK AWAY WITH ANYTHING FROM THIS BOOK IT SHOULD BE THE PRIMARY OBJECTIVE. WHICH IS THE STRAIGHTFORWARD DESIGN OF THE MONOLITH AS A TYPOLOGY FOR THE NEW PUBLIC DIGITAL LIBRARY FOR THE 21ST CENTURY. THIS BOOK IS AN IDEA, A CONCEPTUAL THEORY DESIGN, FOR A COMPENDIUM. A TERM COINED FOR A NEW USE TO LABEL A NEW SPACE. THIS BOOK IS BROKEN UP INTO THREE PARTS. FIRST DISCUSSING THE PAST, PRESENT, AND POSSIBLE FUTURE STATE OF LIBRARIES AND INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY. SECOND EXPLAINING THE INSPIRATION BEHIND THE MONOLITH AND WHERE WE SEE SIMILIAR EXAMPLES OF MONOLITHS AND MONOLITHIC TECTONICS WITH CASE STUDIES IN ARCHITECTURE AND ART. AND LASTLY, THIRD, POSSIBLE SITE LOCATIONS AND PROGRAM IDEAS THAT THIS NEW SPACE, THE COMPENDIUM, WILL HOUSE.

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WHO

YOU... ME... US... SOCIETY... HUMANITY. OPEN TO ANYONE AND EVERYONE, FOR THE PUBLIC.

WHAT

THE COMPENDIUM PUBLIC MULTIMEDIA INFORMATION SPACE. SERVICING SOCIETY AS AN URBAN BODY OF KNOWLEDGE AND SOCIAL GATHERING. A CIVIC FORUM FOR TECHNOLOGY AND INTERNET ACCESS.

WHEN

IN THE FUTURE IN THE UPCOMING DECADES

WHERE

SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA AN INNOVATION HUB, SAN DIEGO IS AN EMERGING CITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, MAKING IT AN APPROPRIATE CONTEXT OF INITIATION.

WHY

INORDER TO ADAPT TO OUR CURRENT PERIOD IN HUMAN HISTORY, THE DIGITAL AGE. BOOK DIGITIZATION, USER-GENERATED CONTENT, AND SOCIAL NETWORKING APPLICATIONS FORCES US TO RETHINK THE ROLE OF LIBRIARIES AND INFORMATION SPACES.

HOW

THE MONOLITH A SINGLE MONOLITHIC VOLUME AS A TYPOLOGY FOR NEW PUBLIC SPACE MAKES IT AN EASILY IDENTIFIABLE MONUMENT IN THE URBAN AND RURAL CONTEXT.

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PART 1

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RETHINKING INFORMATION

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WHEN EVERYTHING WHY COME TO THE

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IS ON THE INTERNET, LIBRARY AT ALL?

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“LIBRARIES WILL DISAPPEAR IN THE FUTURE BY 2019” - Extreme Futurists predictions (not meant to be taken very seriously)

RICHARD WATSON,

FUTURIST & AUTHOR

BOOKS: “FUTURE FILES: THE 5 TRENDS THAT WILL SHAPE THE NEXT 50 YEARS”, “FUTURE MINDS: HOW THE DIGITAL AGE IS CHANGING OUR MINDS, WHY THIS MATTERS AND WHAT WE CAN DO ABOUT IT”, “FUTUREVISION: SCENARIOS FOR THE WORLD IN 2040”

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LIBRARIES ARE DYING PAPER BOOKS WILL BE IRRELEVANT DON’T NEED BIG BUILDINGS ANYMORE WHEN WE HAVE GOOGLE

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PEOPLE

WONDER WHAT THE FUTURE HOLDS FOR LIBRARIES? NO BOOKS? A ROOM FULL OF COMPUTERS? VIRTUAL? WHAT SHOULD BE THE FUTURE OF LIBRARIES? FOR DESIGNERS THE FUTURE IS NOT A FAR OFF PLACE, IT’S A PLACE WHERE THEY WORK EVERYDAY. DESIGN IS A FORM OF ACTIVITEISM. WE IMAGINE THE FUTURE WE WANT, THEN PICK UP THE TOOLS TO START BUILDING UP. DESIGNERS SEE THE WORLD AS A KIT OF PARTS (SCHOOL, COMMUNITY CENTER, LIBRARY, MUSEUM)TO(PROJECT-BASED, GAME-INSPIRED,SOCIAL MEDIA,DIGITAL MEDIA LEARNING), THEY RESHAPE AND RESEMBLE THE BEST PIECES FROM WHATS ALREADY OUT THERE, TO CREATE SOMETHING NEW AND BETTER. IT IS THEN WE REALIZE THAt THE BEST WAY TO PREDICT THE FUTURE IS TO CREATE IT. WHERE DO WE BEGIN?

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TERMINOLOGY CONTRAST

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LIBRARY,

noun.

A collection of books and periodicals held in such a building or room.

Synonyms: bookcase - athenaeum Orgin: LATIN Root: LIBRMeaning: BOOK Example: LIBRARY, LIBRARIAN

COMPENDIUM,

noun.

A collection of things, of concise but detailed information.

Synonyms: summary - epitome Orgin: LATIN Root: COM-,CONMeaning: WITH, TOGETHER Example: COMPENDIA, CONNECT

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INTERNET meets the LIBRARY a MONOLITHIC where the

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MULTIMEDIA slab serving as a infrastructure space of KNOWLEDGE for the PUBLIC. 15

The current state and advancement of technology and communication has changed societies way of gathering information. Architecture has become complicit with the development of programmatic space without taking into consideration our technologically driven lifestyles. By integrating computers and the connection to the world through the internet can we experimentally create a new public space. With today's accessiblity to instant data, the library is transforming into a new urban laboratory of gathering and sharing information for the future. This new "Digital Library" emerges, generating a different idea of an information center, a physical space for the virtual world of the computer over the physicality from the scriptures of books and periodicals. A new performing function of life for a traditional building, the birth of the digital library will generate a new form of social interaction and accessibility of sharing information. A compendia, a collection of information, binding society with knowledge through mulitmedia. Housed in a clearly to understand form of the Monolith. Functioning as a wall slab of technology, information, and social gathering. The Monolith will be the subtle iconic proposed solution for this new space, without the over the top extranvagance of ego driven architecture, easliy recognizable building that will become a catalyst for future replication around the world as the new public space for information and communication. The Compendium welcomes society into our modern high-tech world that is the digital age.

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“YOU CAN’T KNOW WHERE YOU’RE GOING, UNTIL YOU KNOW WHERE YOU’VE BEEN”

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FROM ONE TABLET TO ANOTHER

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IN THE BEGINNING EARLY MAN COMMUNICATED BY CAVE PAINTINGS AND GRUNTING. INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

SOON MAN BEGAN RECORDING INFORMATION ABOUT THE WORLD AROUND HIM.

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2500 BC 3500 BC THE FIRST LANGUAGE- BASED WRITING SYSTEM IS DEVELOPED IN SUMER

AN EARLY FORM OF INKS IS IN USE IN BOTH EGYPT & CHINA

776 BC ATHENS. FIRST RECORDED USE OF HOMING PIGEONS TO SEND MESSAGES

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

3000 BC THE EGYPTAIN DECORATE CHAPELS & TOMBS WITH HIEROGLYPHIC WRITING

1800 BC THE BABLYONIAN ARE USING AN EARLY FORM OF THE ABACUS

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280 BC THE MUSEUM OF ALEXANDRIA IS FOUNDED. ONE OF THE WORLDS FIRST LIBRARIES

14 AD

1835

1821

ROME. THE FIRST POSTAL SERVICE ESTABLISHED

1771 THE ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITTANICA IS PUBLISHED

1800 DEVELOPMENTS IN PAPER BLEACHING ALLOW FOR THE MASS PRODUCTION OF BOOKS & NEWSPAPERS.

1455 GERMANY. JOHANNES GUTENBERG INVENTS THE FIRST PRINTING PRESS

USA. SAMUEL MORSE INVENTS ‘MORSE CODE’

ENGLAND. CHARLES WHEATSTONE INVENTED THE TELEGRAPH AND THE MICROPHONE

1825 FRANCE. NIEPHORE NIEPCE ACHIEVES THE FIRST PHOTOGRAPHIC IMAGE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

1831

1714 100 AD CHINA. THE INVENTION OF PAPER AS WE KNOW IT TODAY

ENGLAND. HENRY MILL PATENTS THE FIRST TYPEWRITER

1793 FRANCE. CLAUDE INVENTED THE FIRST VISUAL SEMAPHORE

1822 CHARLES BABBAGE BUILDS HIS “DIFFERENCE ENGINE”, PROTO TUPE FOR THE MODERN COMPUTER.

1086 AD

USA, NYC. JOSEPH HENRY INVENTS THE FIRST ELECTRIC TELEGRAPH

1876

WILLIAM THE CONQUEROR COMPLETES FIRST CENSUS, ESTABLISHING THE PUBLIC ARCHIVE

USA, BOSTON. ALEXANDER GRAHAM BELL PATENTS THE FIRST TELEPHONE

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1951

1899 1898 USA. EDWIN G. SEIBELS INVENTED THE VERTICAL FILING SYSTEM/CABINET

THE FIRST COMMERICAL COMPUTERS WERE BEING PRODUCED AND SOLD WORLD-WIDE

DENMWARK. VALDEMAR POULSEN INVENTS THE FIRST MAGNETIC STORAGE MEDIUM

1971 INTEL INVENTS THE MICROPROCESSOR.

1976

1910 1878 ENGLAND. EADWEARD MUYBRIDGE PRODUCES THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE

USA,NY. EDISON STUDIOS PRODUCES THE FIRST MOTION PICTURE ADAPTATION OF MARY SHELLEY’S FRANKENSTEIN

APPLE SELLS THE FIRST PERSONAL COMPUTERS

1962 TELSTAR WAS THE FIRST PURPOSE BUILT COMMUNICATIONS SATELLITE LAUNCHED INTO SPACE

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

1925 1887 USA, WASHINGTON D.C. EMILE BERLINER INVENTS THE GRAMOPHONE (RECORDABLE MEDIA)

1902 UK. GUGLEMO MARCONI TRANSMITS RADIO SIGNALS ACROSS THE ATLANTIC OCEAN

UK. JOHN LOGIE BAIRD DEMONSTRATED THE FIRST TELEVISION IN LONDON 1927-1ST TELEVISION BROADCAST IN THE UNITED KINGDOM

1966 XEROX PRODUCE THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY VIABLE FAX MACHINE

1944 USA. THE HARVARD- IBM MARK 1 COMPUTER PIONEERS THE BEGINNING OF THE INFORMATION AGE

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1969 USA. THE D.O.D. ESTABLISHEDES THE ARPANET, THE WORLD'S FIRST OPERATIONAL PACKET SWITCHING NETWORK & THE PROGENITOR OF WHAT IS TO BECOME THE GLOBAL INTERNET

1999

1985 QUANTUM COMPUTER SERVICES, WHICH LATER CHANGES ITS NAME TO AMERICA ONLINE, DEBUTS. IT OFFERS EMAIL, ELECTRONIC BULLETIN BOARDS, NEWS, AND OTHER INFORMATION.

1979 THE FIRST COMMERCIALLY-AVAILABLE RELATIONAL DATABASE IS INTRODUCED

BY ORACLE

COLLEGE STUDENT SHAWN FANNING INVENTS NAPSTER, A COMPUTER APPLICATION THAT ALLOWS USERS TO SWAP MUSIC OVER THE INTERNET

1999 THE “DOT COM” BOOM. INTERNET STOCKS SOAR TO UNPRECEDENTED HIGHTS THE BUBBLE BURTS THE FOLLOWING YEAR.

2006 SKYPE ANNOUNCES THAT IT HAS OVER 100 MILLION USERS

2004 FACEBOOK, SOCIAL NETWORKING, MADE AVAILABLE TO THE PUBLIC.

2001 WIKIPEDIA IS LAUNCHED

2005 YOUTUBE IS LAUNCHED

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

2008 1984 DOMAIN NAME SYSTEM (DNS) IS ESTABLISHED, WITH NETWORK ADDRESSES IDENTIFIED BY EXTENSIONS SUCH AS .COM, .ORG, AND .EDU. WRITER WILLIAM GIBSON COINS THE TERM “CYBERSPACE.”

THERE ARE OVER 150 MILLION WEBSITED ON THE INTERNET. NEARLY 10,000 NEW WEBSITES ARE CREATED EVERY HOUR

2003 APPLE COMPUTER INTRODUCES APPLE ITUNES MUSIC STORE

1998 GOOGLE OPENS ITS FIRST OFFICE, IN CALIFORNIA.

2001 1997

APPLE COMPUTER INTRODUCES THE IPOD

IBM COMPUTER “DEEP BLUE” DEFEATS WORLD CHAMPION GARY KASPAROVE IN CHESS.

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2006 TWITTER, ONLINE SOCIAL NETWORKING SERVICE AND MICROBLOGGING, IS LAUNCHED

SO WHAT DOES THIS MEAN FOR ARCHITECTURE?

2022

2016 2012

2017

INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE - INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY HISTORY TIME LINE

2021 2013 2019

2015

2025

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RETHINKING INFOR25

MATION BUILDINGS 26

TODAY

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“WE DON’T HAVE A CHOICE ON WHETHER WE DO SOCIAL MEDIA, THE QUESTION IS HOW WELL WE DO IT” -ERIK QUALMAN, AMERICAN AUTHOR OF “SOCIALNOMICS,” “DIGITAL LEADER,” AND “CRISIS.”

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IS SOCIAL MEDIA A FAD? …OR THE BIGGEST SHIFT SINCE THE INDUSTRIAL REVOLUTION? 29

EDUCATION STUDY REVEALED THAT ONLINE STUDENTS OUTPERFORMED THOSE RECEIVING FACE-TO-FACE INSTRUCTION US DEPARTMENT OF

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200,000,000

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FACEBOOK WERE A COUNTRY IT WOULD BE THE WORLDS 3RD LARGEST 1.CHINA 2.INDIA 3.FACEBOOK 4.USA 5.INDONESIA

COMPANIES USE SOCIAL MEDIA FOR

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RECRUITMENT

LARGEST SEARCH

ENGINE

SOCIAL MEDIA

OVERTAKEN PORNOGRAPHY AS THE #1 ACTIVITY

IN THE WORLD

HAS

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ON THE WEB

RECENTLY LIBRARY

USE HAS SURGED DUE TO NEW NEEDS. AND A DEEPER DIVIDE BETWEEN THOSE WHO HAVE ACCESS AND THOSE WHO DON’T. AT THE SAME TIME LIBRARIES CLOSE AND REDUCE THEIR HOURS DUE TO BUDGET CUTS, AND EVEN WHEN THEY ARE OPEN ALMOST ALL LIBRARIES USE THINGS LIKE WAIT LISTS OR TIME LIMITS TO MEET THE DEMAND OF THEIR COMMUNITIES. IMAGINE NOT HAVING A COMPUTER OR INTERNET AT HOME, OR WORK, NO WEB ENABLE MOBILE DEVICE, AND YOU HAVE TO STAND IN LINE OR WATCH THE CLOCK WHILE YOU LOOK FOR A JOB, READ AN IMPORTANT EMAIL, OR EVEN RESEARCH A HEALTH CONCERN… WE CAN NOT LET THIS BE, THE TIME HAS COME TO TRANSITION OUT OF THE OLD WAY OF THINKING ABOUT THE LIBRARY.

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77 MILLION, USE THE LIBRARIES COMPUTER OR INTERNET ACCESS

2010 169 MILLION U.S. VISIT TO A PUBLIC LIBRARY

30 MILLION USE ACCESS TO GET HELP WITH A JOB SEARCH. 43 MILLION USE THAT ACCESS TO SPECIFICALLY TO GET IN CONTACT

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TOMORROW

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“...BRINGING THE “SOCIAL” TO SOCIAL MEDIA...”

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LIBRARIES HAVENT REALLY BEEN ABOUT THE WALLS, THE PILLARS, OR THE BOOKS, ITS BEEN ABOUT THE EXPERIENCES AND SOCIAL INTERACTION. SOCIAL MEDIA TAKES THE SAME SOCIAL SKILLS PEOPLE HAVE BEEN PRACTICING FOR 10,000 YEARS, STORY TELLING, COLLABORATION, AND PROBLEM SOLVING, AND ENHANCES THEM WITH THE POWER OF MODERN TECHNOLOGY. MODERN SOCIETY LIVE IN BOTH PHYISCAL AND DIGITAL ENVIRONMENTS AND THEY ADAPT BACK AND FORTH BETWEEN THEM IN SOPHISTICATED WAYS. IT’S THE EVOLUTION OF HUMAN COMMUNICATION AT A SCALE NEVER BEFORE IMAGINED. THIS HAS BECOME AN INDICATOR OF HOW NEW TECHNOLOGICAL AND VIRTUAL COMMUNITIES ARE FORMING. THROUGH THE MONLITHIC COMPENDIUM WE CAN BRING THAT HUMAN ELEMENT BACK TO OUR TECHNOLOICALLY DRIVEN SOCIETY, AS WELL AS BRING THE PEOPLE WHO HAVE BEEN LEFT BEHIND UP TO SPEED INTO THIS HIGH-TECH MODERN WORLD. WITH THIS ACCESSIBLITY TO THE PUBLIC, THE COMPENDIUM IS NOW BRINGING THE “SOCIAL” TO SOCIAL MEDIA THROUGH REAL ENGAGEMENT. AS OUR EXPERIENCE BECOME INCREASINGLY DIGITAL WE CREATE NEW KINDS OF LIBRARIANS AND SPACES. THESE NEW LIBRARIANS ARE TRAINED IN RESEARCH, BUT NOT LIMITED TO BOOKS AND SCHOLARLY KNOWLEDGE. THEY KNOW WHERE THE INFORMATION IS ACROSS ALL MEDIAS, AND SPECIALIZE IN CURRENT AND NEW TECHNOLOGIES TO AID THE PUBLIC IN UNDERSTANDING THESE TOOLS. FROM AIDING A TEENAGER IN CURRENT BIOMIMICRY ROBOTICS TO ASSISTING A SENIOR CITIZEN ON 3D-PRINTERS. ULTIMATELY NARRROWING THE GAP IN THE DIGITAL DIVIDE BETWEEN PEOPLE WHO HAVE LITTLE TO NO CONNECTION OR INTERACTION WITH INFORMATION TECHNOLOGIES. THE CONPENDIUM CAN HELP THE COMMUNITIES IN THESE NEW WAYS. THIS URBAN WALL SLAB, THAT IS THE COMPENDIUM, SERVES AS THIS MEDIA SPACE THAT IS TO BECOME A NEW MODEL FOR A PUBLIC LIBRARY, PROVIDING FOR A VERTICALLY OPEN AND FLEXABLE PROGRAMS, ALLOWING FOR MORE OPENESSS ON THE GROUNDPLAN, ALL WHILE FOCUSING ON NETWORKING AND COLLABORATION WITH AND WITHIN THE MONOLITH. WITH ACCESS TO CONTENT, SPACE, AND SERVICE, THE COMPENDIUM HELPS INDIVIDUALS BECOME

EFFECTIVE MEMBERS OF THEIR COMMUNITY, AND WHEN WE PROVIDES THAT OPPORUNITY TO ANYONE, IT BECOMES OPPORUNITY FOR ALL.

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sociology, economics, politics, urbanism, science, religion, alchemy, history, evolutionary

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PYTHIA

COMPENDIUM A BREIF MOMENT NARRATIVE

FROM THE COMIC MIND OF OMAR KAKAR

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An unexpected house guest at the Library residence. Circa 1995 when the internet was made available to the public.

What do you guys think of Y2K?

Get out & get your own place!

THATS IT!!!

Meanwhile... The monolithic wall slab standing as an imposing architectural element of dominance and authority. Sole purpose, to DIVIDE.

Now a paradoxical wall of social gathering and uniting.

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PART 2

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ENTER THE VOID

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MONOLITH,

THE AN ICONIC ELEMENT IN STANLEY KUBRICK’S FILM “2001: A SPACE ODYSSEY”, HAS BEEN SUBJECTED TO COUNTLESS INTERPRETATIONS AND MEANINGS. IT PLAYS A VITAL ROLE WITH THE COMPENDIUM, AS THE CONCEPTUAL INFLUENCE IN THE ORGINS OF THIS PROJECT. APPEARING AT TRIGGER MOMENTS IN THE FILM, THE MONOLITH REPRESENTS A MARKER OF TRANSITIONS IN THE HISTORY OF HUMAN EVOLUTION, EVOLUTION OF MAN FROM APE-LIKE BEINGS, TO SPACE AND BEYOND. THIS ERECT ELEMENT CONVEYS A LEVEL OF MYSTIQUE AND HOLYNESS THAT SPARKS THE MIND’S CUROSITY FORC-

ING THE APES TO LOOK UP, TO THE SPACE, TO THE HEAVENS. THE FILM DISPLAYS THE MONOLITH AS AN ORGIN THAT TRIGGERED THE MIND OF A PRIMITIVE BEING TO AN INTELLIGENT ONE. AS A GUIDE THAT IMPLICITLY INFLUENCE AN APE TO PICKUP A BONE AND USE IT AS A TOOL, INTURN THAT KNOWLEDGE BECOME HUMANITIES’ TOOL, CONQUERING IT TO ULTIMATELY REACH OUT TO THE UNKNOWNS OF THE BEYOND, TO THE ODYSSEY OF MANKIND. THE MONOLITH TO KUBRICK WAS A SYMBOLIC ARCHITECTONIC OF TRANSITION FROM APE TO MAN. A METHOPHORIC TYPOLOGY, TRANSITIONING OLD TO THE NEW, FROM THE 20TH CENTURY LIBRARY TO THE 21ST CENTURY COMPENDIUM FOR THE DIGITAL AGE.

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STANLEY KUBRICK, AMERICAN FILM DIRECTOR

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ORIGINALLY THIS PROJECT

CHINA

BEGAN AS A LARGE SCALE URBAN THEORY PROJECT. THE COMPENDIUM WOULD RUN THROUGH AN ENTIRE CITY A MONOLITHIC WALL SLAB OF DIGITAL INFORMATION. CREATING A PARADOXICAL WALL OF UNITING, GATHERING, AND ATTRACTING VERUS THE AUTHORITATIVE WALLS WE’VE SEEN AND GROWN ACCUSTOMED TO THROUGHTOUT THE COURSE OF HISTORY. THE WALL A DOMINANT SEPARATOR OF SPACE WOULD BE FLIPPED ON ITS HEAD WITH THE INTERGRATION OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY AND THE INTERNET, THAT SOCIETY WOULD VOLUNTARILY COME TO.

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HOWEVER, THE COMPENDIUM HAS THE POTENTIAL TO EXPAND ACROSS THE CITY, SERVING AS AN INFRASTRUCTURE OF INSTANT INFORMATION AND KNOWLEDGE TO THE SOCEITY. A FRAGMENTED LINEAR BINDING OF DISTRICTS AND COMMUNITIES, STICHING THE URBAN FABRIC TOGETHER THROUGH THE MONOLITHIC SLABS. CREATING TECHNOLOGICAL HUBS AND CITY NODES OF PUBLIC GATHERINGS.

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1 CASE STUDY

DUBAI RENAISSANCE 2006 OMA REM KOOLHAAS & FERNANDO DONIS RAS AL KHOR WILDLIFE SANCTUARY, DUBAI, U.A.E.

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“A stand out amoung the surrounding towers, a radical experiment in alternating identies.”

PROGRAM 1 2 3

PARKING RETAIL MECHANICAL OTHER

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CULTURE 2 1

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DUBAI RENAISSANCE

MECHANIC COMPUTER

OFFICE 4

KAKAR

“As if the old horizontal city has been lifted, the building contains a rich section/slice of urban life in a way that is totally accessible by vertical transport, constructed like an elevator core.”

MECHANIC URBAN

RESENTAIL

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DUBAISAN DIEGO OMA

COMPENDIUM

“The form is based on a fundamental logic that integrated architecture, construction, services and climate.

An experiment in alternating identites, offers a monumental presence from one side, from another angel it reveals exceptional slenderness.”

2 CASE STUDY

VIA APPIA 2008 BERLAGE INSTITUTE PIER VITTORIO AURELI, MARTINO TATTARA, & JIONG WU ROME

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Modern cities today run through a landscape of fragments and sprawl via appia is a stragtegic plan for the contemporary city of rome, a composed language of two elements: generic facilities and extraordinary ritual places along the consular road. The intervention of monlithic slabs placed perpendicular along the road.

The slabs are meant to be non-referential, generic objects; repeated rhytemically along Via Appia.

VIA APPIA VIA APPIA MASTER PLAN

POTENIAL EXPANSION IN SAN DIEGO

AXON SLAB

The slabs offer a background to nature and existing settlements while replacingurban sprawl by concentrating activites SAN DIEGO

PLAN RADICALLY GENERIC PRIVATE FLOOR LIVING PUBLIC FLOOR 12 m

PRIVATE FLOOR WORKING 820 m

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3 CASE STUDY

STOP CITY 2007 DOGMA PIER VITTORIO AURELI PROPOSAL FOR AN URBAN THEORETICAL MODEL

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PLAN RADICALLY GENERIC 25m

MIXED FLOOR LIVING/WORKING

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MOVEMENT Elevators

“The architecture of the mustbe an absolute architecture, an architecture that is defined by and makes clear the presenceof borders that cross the city. It must recognize the political separateness that potentially,within the sea of urbanization, can be manifest through the borders that define the possibility of the city. It must refuse any impetus to noveltyand accept the possibility of being an instrumentof separation, and thus of political action” -Aureli

Stairs

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Esca-walk Metro

ar·chi·pel·a·go Noun A group of islands.

A sea or stretch of water containing many islands.

CITYCIVIC AURELI

KAKAR

“Architectural form will be there before being something, and it will be there after: hard and aunalterable, relentlessly mocking its own meaning, its function, program, content, images, style, clients, representations, pretensions... The essence of architectural form lies in its obstructiveness. Architectural form works as a strategy simply by existing; it is there to advance its context, not itself.” -Aureli

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USING THE POWER OF IMAGERY

CONTINUOUS MONUMENT 1969

EXODUS 1972

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CONTINUES AROUND THE WORLD

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ANAYLSIS

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SO

ARE THESE JUST

GIANT WIFI TOWERS?

SURE, BUT...

EVEN THOUGH THE COMPENDIUM PROVIDE INTERNET ACCESS,

THE PUBLIC SPACE THAT EMERGES, ALONG WITH

THE PROGRAM AND SERVICE, PROVIDE FOR A 60

RICH EXPERIENCE

There seems to be no contemporary architecture. Architecture is either ahead of its time or stuck in the past struggling to keep up. Architects have become more like chroniclers of the times of other disciplines and mediums, refusing to produce contemporary buildings, instead curate an atmosphere of contemporaneity. However one cannot see the future, we can only spectulate and prepare for potential possibilities. Through my research of past architects, especially in the 1960s and on, the aim was to design the future with Utopian living and walking cities. This project will 61

step back and hone in on a specific, the compendium, and not predict an entire city of program. Instead predict future programs for a public space. A space a technologic and human interactions for the purpose of information, communication, and entertainment. Social media, gaming, and the entertainment industry have created virtual spaces that people live in. How does reality design for augmented realities? Based off technologic trends, futurist research, and film & media. This is a prediction of possible public program and service, architecture looking at the pre- verus the post-.

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Augmented Reality, technology that allows for computer-generated virtual imagery information to be superimposed onto a live direct or indirect real world environment in real time.

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THE REAL SPACE...

& THE VIRTUAL SPACE

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AUDITORUIM EXHIBITION HALL/GALLERY OFFICE RESEARCH LAB TEST LAB STAFF MEETS STORAGE PARKING BATHROOMS ELEVATORS CULTURE HISTORY ART COMPUTER-MEDIATED REALITY HOLOGRAMS DIGITAL WALL ENTERTAINMENT THEATHER GAMING ATHLETICS AVATAR ADULT CONTENT WORLD COMMUNICATION LOUNGE WORLD NEWS TELEVISION WORLD SPORTS TELEVISOIN VIDEO CHAT

SEMI-PUBLIC

PRINT/FABRICCATION PRINTERS 3D PRINTERS LASER CNC

PUBLIC

INTERNET COMPUTERS INFORMATION LOBBY OUTDOORS COMPUTER FORUM COMPUTER LOUNGE TABLE ROOM

RETAIL CAFE ELECTRONICS STUDIO ART FILM MUSIC EDUCATION CLASSROOM

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SEMI-PRIVATE

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“LET ME GIVE YOU AN EXAMPLE OF PLACES IN AMERICA DOING WELL … SAN DIEGO IS VIEWED AS OUR GREAT NAVAL CITY, AND IT STILL IS, BUT IT IS THE CENTER OF HUMAN GENOME RESEARCH IN AMERICA. … YOU GOT VETERS FOUNDATION ITS AN N.G.O., THEN YOU GOT THE UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO PUTTING OUT ALL THESE SCIENTIST, YOU HAVE THE REPUBLICAN MAYOR OF SAN DIEGO INVITING PEOPLE IN, AND THE BIGGEST COMPUTER COMPANY QUALCOMM HEIR BY A DEMOCRAT IRWIN JACOBS, WHOSE A GOOD FRIEND OF MIND, AND THEY HAVE SPAWNED 700 MORE COMPUTER COMPANIES IN SAN DIEGO. WHY? BECAUSE YOU HAVE THE

GOVERNMENT, THE NON-PROFIT SECTOR, AND THE BUSINESS SECTOR WORKING TOGETHER TO DO THIS … WHEN THEY WORK TOGETHER, THEY‛RE SO MUCH POWERFUL…”

BILL CLINTON, FORMER U.S. PRESDIENT ON THE DAILY SHOW SEPT. 20TH 2012

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SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA 68

32°42’54”N 117°09’45”W POPULATION 1,301,617 AREA • City 372.398 sq mi • Land 325.188 sq mi • Water 47.210 sq mi

AN INNOVATION HUB, SAN DIEGO IS AN EMERGING CITY OF TELECOMMUNICATIONS AND BIOTECHNOLOGY RESEARCH, MAKING IT AN APPROPRIATE CONTEXT OF INITIATION OF THE COMPENDIUM. “AMERICA’S FINEST CITY” IS THE 8TH LARGEST IN THE NATION AND 2ND IN THE STATE. WORKING HARD TO IMPROVE ON THE QUALITY OF LIFE IN LIFE SCIENCES AND TECHNOLOGY, HOME TO TOP RESEARCH FACILITIES SUCH AS THE SALK INSTITUE AND HIGH-TECH COMPANIES LIKE QUALCOMM.

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Escondido

Encinitas

Del Mar Poway

Northern Northeastern Miramar

University City

Santee

La Jolla Kearny Mesa Clairemont

Eastern

Pacific Beach

El Cajon Mission Valley

Mission Beach

La Mesa

Western Ocean Beach

Old Town

Mid-City

Hillcrest Balboa Park

Airport

Lemon Grove

Central Downtown

Coronado

Point Loma

Southeastern National City

52 805 I-5

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I-15

Chula Vista

163

I-8

94

Imperial Beach

805 54

125

Southern San Ysidro

I-5

805

Tijuana, Mexico

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SAN DIEGO LABRARY MAPPING

CENTRAL SAN DIEGO CITY

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LAND

2

WATER 3

POTENTIAL COMPENDIUM SITES 71

1 CITY

[DOWNTOWN SAN DIEGO]

2 LAND

[BALBOA PARK]

3 WATER

[SAN DIEGO BAY]

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