ACADIA Competition - Design Statement

LIBRARY FOR THE
INFORMATION AGE
The 1998 ACADIA International Design Competition

 

Design Statement:
This submission for the library of the future does not provide society with a new state of the art facility experimenting with spatialization and cyberspace, but rather attemps to provide a means and method to transform existing libraries into a new social environment that utilizes the Internet and redefines their existing typologies across the globe. This intervention provides a process that spans regionalism and anticipates technological progress through site specific integration and flexibility. This intervention also provides experiments into the relationship between the individual and society through the simultaneity of privacy and public exposure.

     


"The essence of modern technology starts man upon the way of that revealing trough which the real everywhere, more or less distinctly, becomes standing-reserve" Martin Heidegger
(Martin Heidegger, The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays. New York, NY, Harper & Row Publishers, Inc., 1977. p. 24.)

 

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