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RE - Shelving

2019_6wks

Community Library for Houston
The library is an institution that is programmatically fluid, required to adapt to the changing needs of the community it serves. Dawn Finley’s 502 studio, investigated the pattern, form and the library. RE-Shelving is a pliable infrastructure for changing and developing infills. Derived from a commercial rack typology the infrastructure is assembled of standard members and accommodates different scales of information exchange: data, books, artifacts and people. The infill of the infrastructure is malleable, the current infill types can be implemented or adapted and new infills could be introduced. In section the structure is divided into zones, the informal field conditions of the roof and ground sandwich three formal reference levels. In plan the grid is disrupted by gathering spaces, on the roof and ground these are blob-shape superimpositions while on the reference levels they are rectilinear, abiding by the language established by the rigid grid. Like a sponge the infrastructure can accumulate or expel content.

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Experiential Model Shots
Infrastructure Assembly Infill
Ground Plan Second + Third Plan Fourth + Roof Plan Section AA Section BB Section CC