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Architecture should be a symbolic gesture,
reflecting the broader landscape system and urban conditions in flux.
Mark

Hidden Grid, Revealed Room





2021 Fall
Instructor: Ron Witte
 

            For most libraries, they have generic grids. Based on the system, generic stack rooms and reading rooms experience are formed. While, as one of only two public libraries in the United States that are members of the Association of Research Libraries, the Boston Public Library holds extensive special collections in a wide variety of subjects and formats. There are rich categories for the special collections ranging from fine arts to photographs. So, what kind of system can accommodate the special collection for the public to view?


            I propose to create an incrementally increasing grid system, which can accommodate intense special collections of Boston Public Library. The grid system is broken by isolated reading room bars and hidden among intense collections and reading rooms. The relationship among the rooms, though, are revealed through visitors’ meandering in the collections and reading rooms maze. Furthermore, I am interested in exploring to what extent the grid system is hidden or revealed.


            High contrasts are formed among the different categories and different era. Rich imagination would be stimulated during one’s meandering in the intense collections. The overall circulation would follow time sequence. The stairs can also offer time shortcut. It is possible for readers to go directly from 17c to 21c with only several stairs.

            Walking across wall by wall, columns by columns, you can also experience the different relationship between readers and information brought by the grids. The completely different categories of information across the grids stimulates your imagination, modern art of the 20c is put together with furniture, and music CDs, and books. From the most extreme space to lager open space, both the roof skylight window and the façade openings encourages your meandering in the collection space.
Mark

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