W.U.C.E - Precedent Analysis

REX - Seattle Library

Library's no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store where all potent forms of media - old and new - are presented equally and legibly.  In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and, more importantly, the curatorship of their content that will make the library vital.

Library should cultivate a more refined approach by organising itself into spatial compartments, each dedicated to, and equipped for, specific duties

Spaces between platforms function as trading floors where librarians inform and stimulate, where the interface between the different platforms is organised - spaces for work, interaction and play.



Image 1: Seattle Library (available from: http://www.rex-ny.com/work/seattle-library/)

The traditional library presents the visitor with an infernal matrix of materials, technologies, “specialists.” It is an often demoralizing process: a trail of tears through dead-end sections, ghost departments, and unexplained absences.

B.I.G. Various Projects

A library is essentially a spatial interface between people and information.

A library is where all information is virtually available everywhere, the true potential of the library becomes the interaction of people with collections of all kinds of media under the prefessional guidance of librarians.

An interesting diagram for incorporating multiple functions within a set area.



Image 2: B.I.G. diagramming (available from: http://flash.big.dk/)