Thoroughfare of discoveries: Material Library

Learning, as an architecture student, is most often triggered by the acts of conversations, discussions, overhearing peer reviews, and most importantly, hands-on, active brainstorming sessions. The significance of a library experience involves discoveries engendered by the space for users, who perceive it as being in constant renewal and transformation, discovering undefined relationships and being inspired by unfamiliar fields. The material library is thus imagined as a thoroughfare of discoveries. Situated at the threshold of the north and south campuses, the thoroughfare is designed to offer chances. Chances of displacement, assemblage, expansion, and encounters. These chances are induced by the street that is continuously transforming with its habitation. The cruciform columns, with their clamping system, become conducive to dynamic spatial enclosures and encounters while the social domain of the street (the plinth) is expressed as a natural ground- expansive and open to possibilities. The experience with materials is imagined as an act of exploring and browsing in a market. The constant physical displacement of the user insinuates the idea of a very hands-on investigation and exploration.