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task 6/7
task 6: This week we were to read a short piece of fiction which describes an imaginary library. The short story is called “ The Library of Babel’. It was written by the Argentinian author Jorge Luis Borges in 1941. Once we had read the story carefully, i was tasked to design our own interpretation of the library that it describes.
This task was about creating imaginitive spaces, exploring the relationship between fiction and architecture, and (most importantly) experimenting with architectural language. As such, we individual will be required to develop an architectural language for theirdesign.
FOR THE THIS TASK I LOOKED AT JORJE BORGE’S SHORT STORY ‘THE BABeL LIBRARY’ AND ASKED TO DESIGN WHAT I THINK THE LIBRARY WOULD LOOK LIKE. I DREW INSPIRATION FORM NOT ONLY THE STORY BUT ALSO FROM THE PRESIDENTS ABOVE AND WANTED TO
CREATE SOMETHING THAT WAS ENIGMATIC, LABYRINTH, MYSTERIOUS AND AN ILLUSION. WHILE STILL KEEPING THE RULES OF THE LIBRARY IN THE STORY WITH HEXAGON ROOMS THAT CAN BE SEEN IN ANY ROOM FROM ABOVE OR BELOW THAT HAS ‘IDENTICAL GALLERIES ANF FOYERS ... SPIRAL STAIRCASES AND MiRRORS FOOR ILLUSION THAT MASK THE LIMITED
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for task 7 we were asked to further develop our design of the imaginative library from feedback we had received in task 6.
THE LIBRARY OF BABEL WAS INTERPRETED AS SOMETHING THAT AS A MYSTERIOUS, MAZE THAT I WANTED TO CREATE INTO A CHAOTIC CITY OF= FRACTALS AND TUNNELS OF BOOKS, SHOWING A NEVER ENDING EXPANSION OF THE LIBRAY THAT NEVER ENDS AND WHERE EVERYTHING LOOKS THE SAME. WITH LONG CONTINUOUS HALLWAYS WITH MIRRORS THAT SHOW SOME ILLUSION OF INFINITY. KEEPING ALL THE ROOMS AND HALLWAYS IN A HEXAGON SHAPE THAT SHOW THE FLOORS ABOVE AND BELOW.
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