"I draw so that I can see" Scarpa
"Line is basis of all drawings" Mauricio Baretto
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing" Picasso
"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees." Robert Irwin
"If you are really eager to learn and want to learn something, you look into that thing, not at it." Frank Lloyd Wright
"A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets." Paul Gauguin
Alas;
A 22"x30" sheet of strathmore lies in front of me...
Drafting pencil in hand...
Light on full power...
Allow me to get personal with my drawings.
Allow me to show you my letters... my secrets...
My ideas. My thoughts. My mind.
My project is about the dialectical language between knowledge and the user of knowledge. I see knowledge as chance. A chance that the user can take advantage of, or a chance that the user may not take advantage of. It is all about the engagement of the user. If the user chooses to engage, then the user activates the possibilities of knowledge within.
It is the balances of imbalances. The human activates my project through movement within my project.
Similar to the idea behind my original mapping exercise, the user first comes from a grand space of totality. The space of the world. The users life. The users experiences. Then, the user focuses and enters UNAM and eventually narrows down to a large open field within a quad of buildings. The user, on his journey through life pursuing knowledge, enters the new library and is narrowed into a grand space.
Within this open and grand space, one is allowed to roam free. Experience the library as a whole. See the library in totality. See the connection of knowledge, space, time, and the human element. Get personal with the books.
The knowledge seeker moves through the space, entering the narrow stacks, coming out to small private reading areas, goes down into depressed reading spaces, travels up a few stairs into a mass of knowledge rising up above them all. Looking out, and seeing the totality of all the books UNAM has to offer. As one looks, one sees the programmatic elements above the stacks. They seem to float on their slender columns. Floating, interacting, inter playing with the liminal space between them and the books. Creating spaces, voids, zones, reading rooms, and gardens. The offices, cafe, lecture hall, small store, are all elevated from the books, but the books also reach up and grab into the space above. It is much like interlocking fingers, or two brushes pressed up against one another, allowing the bristles to intertwine and interact with one another.
The condescending reaction that occurs inside the user is experiential. One experiences the value of space. Moving from an outside hectic world to this grand organized space, to intimate isles of stacks of books, to the small and private reading rooms. One is activated by the building to learn.
Knowledge, chosen by chance of the user, activates the user.
The user activates the building.
Activates the project.
"Line is basis of all drawings" Mauricio Baretto
"To draw, you must close your eyes and sing" Picasso
"Seeing is forgetting the name of the thing one sees." Robert Irwin
"If you are really eager to learn and want to learn something, you look into that thing, not at it." Frank Lloyd Wright
"A critic in my house sees some paintings. Greatly perturbed, he asks for my drawings. My drawings? Never! They are my letters, my secrets." Paul Gauguin
Alas;
A 22"x30" sheet of strathmore lies in front of me...
Drafting pencil in hand...
Light on full power...
Allow me to get personal with my drawings.
Allow me to show you my letters... my secrets...
My ideas. My thoughts. My mind.
My project is about the dialectical language between knowledge and the user of knowledge. I see knowledge as chance. A chance that the user can take advantage of, or a chance that the user may not take advantage of. It is all about the engagement of the user. If the user chooses to engage, then the user activates the possibilities of knowledge within.
It is the balances of imbalances. The human activates my project through movement within my project.
Similar to the idea behind my original mapping exercise, the user first comes from a grand space of totality. The space of the world. The users life. The users experiences. Then, the user focuses and enters UNAM and eventually narrows down to a large open field within a quad of buildings. The user, on his journey through life pursuing knowledge, enters the new library and is narrowed into a grand space.
Within this open and grand space, one is allowed to roam free. Experience the library as a whole. See the library in totality. See the connection of knowledge, space, time, and the human element. Get personal with the books.
The knowledge seeker moves through the space, entering the narrow stacks, coming out to small private reading areas, goes down into depressed reading spaces, travels up a few stairs into a mass of knowledge rising up above them all. Looking out, and seeing the totality of all the books UNAM has to offer. As one looks, one sees the programmatic elements above the stacks. They seem to float on their slender columns. Floating, interacting, inter playing with the liminal space between them and the books. Creating spaces, voids, zones, reading rooms, and gardens. The offices, cafe, lecture hall, small store, are all elevated from the books, but the books also reach up and grab into the space above. It is much like interlocking fingers, or two brushes pressed up against one another, allowing the bristles to intertwine and interact with one another.
The condescending reaction that occurs inside the user is experiential. One experiences the value of space. Moving from an outside hectic world to this grand organized space, to intimate isles of stacks of books, to the small and private reading rooms. One is activated by the building to learn.
Knowledge, chosen by chance of the user, activates the user.
The user activates the building.
Activates the project.
