What is a library? It is easy to envision the ordinary and ubiquitous library that we are all familiar with, but is there more to libraries that is yet to be explored? What is a concept of a library? What do we as architects envision as the design for a library?
The Thesis is built upon the idea that Libraries should be designed out of stories, because stories are written in books and books are found in libraries.
According to the writer Borges, the concept of a library, is that it is composed of an indefinite and infinite number of galleries, which are connected by vestibules. Anyone in this library can see upper and lower from any galleries and "all are repeated in the same disorder which constitutes an order!" ...
The Thesis explores this concept of finding the order through repeated disorders, in another words, a labyrinth. The writer Umberto Eco has said in one of his novels:
"How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths."
In search of this "beauty" in the world, through this thesis I have explored and found the procedure for designing a library. / Master of Architecture / In Architecture, there is a fine balance between imagination and practicality. Practicality is often rooted in the physical world and can be determined by more materialistic and technical aspects. Imagination on the other hand can be subjective to the architect without having any constraints.
With a program idea of a library in my mind, the thesis began with reading stories about a library. Because stories are written in books and books are found in libraries, the manifestation of the design is driven by the "stories" and it defines the pure existence of the building. This work studies the balance between the functional and the non fictional world, through these stories. The main program of the thesis consists of two libraries. These two libraries are located in the Georgetown neighborhood of Washington, D.C. The south side of the library belongs to the public and the north side belongs to the private.
Throughout the design process, the libraries constantly explore the balance of the imaginative and the practical world. The thesis questions the importance of this approach and how we as architects and designers define programs for buildings. The thesis further questions how references of the surrounding context implement into the design both through forms and materiality.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:VTETD/oai:vtechworks.lib.vt.edu:10919/78219 |
| Date | 19 June 2017 |
| Creators | Batzorig, Tenuun |
| Contributors | Architecture, Holt, Jaan, Feuerstein, Marcia F., Emmons, Paul F. |
| Publisher | Virginia Tech |
| Source Sets | Virginia Tech Theses and Dissertation |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | ETD, application/pdf |
| Rights | In Copyright, http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ |
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