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Architecture that does not derive its themes from itself is like a painting that tries to be nothing more than a photographic reproduction. The themes of architecture can only be architecture itself. Just as painting makes use of its own language and poetics to give expression to images, or music is represented in tonal compositions, there is a possibility, or even a necessity, for architecture to make ideas visible and testable in the form of spatial compositions by the use of the language of architecture.
-Oswald Mathias Ungers
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2nd YEAR STUDY CARREL
USC
SPRING 1999
A study carrel, the person library is also the book: the story unfolding, the mystery being solved, the horror scaring, the romance manipulating feelings, children's sparking imagination. In this library you encounter covers that you must open to reveal the stories that lie on the other side. You must look into the book, the building to discover the stories that it has to tell. In doing so, a place to sit, lay, or prop a book may appear from wall. The books themselves are found within the space articulated by reflected colored light. |
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2nd YEAR PUBLIC LIBRARY
USC
Hollywood, CA
SPRING 1999
This library characterizes the individual and their transposition between a place of comfort and of confrontation. The oppositions of these elements express how meaning and truth may be found through, and in the pursuit of, answers to questions--But, first we must question... The library is the place of answers only if one is to seek them first.
Entering the library one must pursue a direction down a shallow path, meant to express an individuals limbo state of mind. After entrance one can find all the library resources in ordered and gridded side of the building. Places of activity, of learning, reading, and viewing are all in the active side of the building along with the ramping circulation and make up what would seem a chaotic appearance. The book stacks and all other collections of information are located on the static side of the building in uniform and gridded organization and appearance. The two sides remain severed by that individual path or location where the mind is in a state of limbo between the static and active thought. Thus, actual function of the spaces directly correlate with the built form. |
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