ARCH 201.02

Reading Response

Jorge Luis Borges/ Library of Babel

The story is told in the first person. The narrator draws a parallel between the universe and an infinite library, where all knowledge, such as the knowledge of origin of the world: “the origin of the Library and of time” is stored. The…

Final Proposal-Human Blueprint Repository

Project 2 — Research Assemblage

Carrels, Book Stacks, Display Case, Work Tables & Chair

MID REVIEW— ORGANIZATIONAL STRATEGY

My project is based on the idea of creating a Library for the collection, sequencing, and storage…

IMPRESSION OF LECTURE

In the lecture, the professor introduced some work of her team. She pointed out her idea of architecture and take a look at the special characteristic in details. She has introduced many high technique usage and initial design ideas but failed at end.

Reading Response

The book Libraries in the Ancient World, by Lionel Casson, tells the story of ancient libraries from their very beginnings, when “books” were clay tablets and writing was a new phenomenon. It is a full-scale study of libraries in the ancient world. It displays everything that is known about ancient…

Project 1B — Beinecke Rare Book Library

When diagramming the Beinecke Rare Book Library, we looked at the relationships that…

Project 2 — Research Assemblage

My design for both my components and the assembly revolved around my research on environmental…

Project 3 — Organizational Strategy — in development for mid-Review