“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.” Marcus Tullius Cicero
Knowledge is not about libraries or books or the internet. The accumulation of knowledge is essentially the foundation of civilization. Libraries have traditionally been the locations to store the information. Now libraries have the opportunity to be much more. They are the hubs to access, share, and to discuss knowledge. They no longer are mainly about storage and preservation. They are about ease of access and about gathering of people.
Further, the nature of how the information is shared has changed. With the advent of digital technology space no longer needs to be spatially ordered. Spaces can be much more dynamic and flexible, allowing for users to shape them more freely. The users themselves can form new ways of gathering and sharing knowledge with each other. The library is their tool to be interpreted.
In this design the library is consciously not a singular gesture, but more as a series of interpretable spaces. Previously libraries were seen as places to gain access to books, this library provides places for the dissemination and sharing of knowledge.
