121kra_KRAKOW LIBRARY WALL OF BOOKS

The history of architecture is peppered with attempts to materialise the library as 100% book. However for various reasons each attempt has faltered: Tres Grande Biblitheque in Paris for example made its ‘book end’ towers both inaccessible to the public and the books invisible due to daylight degradation; without the responsibility of weatherproofing, the forthcoming Book Mountain still treats the book/shelf as interiorised furniture than exteriorised architecture. With the Krakow Library our ambition is set:  how can we further push the expressive boundaries of the library as a manifestation of Borges’ Labyrinth: that is a space containing every letter, every word, every sentence of every language?

SAY WHAT_!?

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