Contained sf
The entire 2025 collection can be held comfortably within one demarcated zone, 19,129 sf less than originally allocated to it.
La colección completa de 2025 libros puede ser ubicada confortablemente en una zona con un ahorro de espacio de 5830m2 menos de lo que estaba utilizado originalmente.Lo mas rescatable de este ahorro de m2 es que finalmente la organización de los libros es mucho mas optima lo que hace que su búsqueda sea mucho mas rápida, al igual que la importante zona que se esta utilizando para otro tipo de servicios.
Youtube + Seattle Central Library
Surfeando por YouTube me encontré con un excelente vídeo, sobre el Red Room de la librería, ya que es probable que no podamos hacer el viaje a Seattle, es una buena fuente para entender la fenomenología del lugar
Social Role
The Library has been transformed from a space to read into a socialcenter with multiple responsibilities.
Each library today houses a proliferation of adjunct conditions that creates a conceptual imbalance:
since its format has never been fundamentally adjusted to accommodate its new social role,
the Library is like a host organism overwhelmed by its parasites.
El roll social
La Gran Lista de Publicaciones 2/2
Content
Rem Koolhaas
Taschen, 2004
The Dutch Embassy in Berlin by OMA/Rem Koolhaas
Rem Koolhaas, Kayoko Ota (concept), Duc Boorsma, Franois Chaslin, Rem Koolhaas and Ton van Zeeland, Photography: Candida Hfer
NAi Publishers, Rotterdam, 2004
New Equalities (Revolución mediática)
Books have to share attention with other media of potent performance and attraction.
A parallel exists between the vast proliferation and incredible intricacy of program
in the New Library, and the equally explosive multiplication of information media
and social obligations that has to be accommodated within it.
La Gran Lista de Publicaciones 1/2
Al Manakh, Gulf Region
by Rem Koolhaas, Ole Bouman, Mark Wigley (Editors)
Columbia University GSAPP / Archis, 2007AMO in collaboration with Moutamarat and ARCHIS
AA Words One: Architecture, Ideology and the City:
Peter Eisenman Meets Rem Koolhaas
by Brett Steele (Author), Rem Koolhaas (Author), Peter Eisenman (Contributor), Jeffrey Kipnis (Contributor), Robert E. Somol (Contributor)
AA Publications (May 10, 2007)
Google, Rem Koolhaas, Timeline. 3/3
Esta es la ultima parte de la secuencia de graficas, ahora comparamos todas sus obras arquitectonicas, construidas y en construccion. Podemos ver la relacion que existe entre el volumen de busquedas, las publicaciones y sus obras, y como el pico de todas estas empieza a partir de 2000 y sigue hasta hoy en día, teniendo como su primera obra el Netherlands Dance Theatre, en The Hague, Holanda en 1987.
Google, Rem Koolhaas, Timeline. 2/3
La misma grafica de tiempo, pero ahora he añadido todas las publicaciones en las cuales Rem Koolhaas ha sido editor o el autor de los mismo. A simple vista se comprende el por que del volumen de entradas en Google.
Flexibility
Flexibility in recent libraries – San Francisco, Denver, Phoenix – has been conceived as the creation of floors on which almost any library activity can happen. Programs are not separated, rooms or individual spaces not given unique character. In practice, it means that the bookshelves define generous reading areas at the opening, then expand inexorably to encroach on public space. Ultimately, in this form of flexibility, the Library strangles its own attractions.A more plausible strategy divides the building into spatial compartments dedicated to and equipped for specific duties. Flexibility can exist within each section, but not at the expense of any of the other compartments… Change is possible by deliberately redefining use, rededicating compartments to new programs. (Cf. the LA Library, where the main reading room was successfully transformed into a children’ s library.)
Google, Rem Koolhaas, Timeline. 1/3
Una gráfica donde comparamos el volumen de búsquedas en Google, sobre Rem Koolhaas, en un tiempo, este es referente a cuando están fechados los artículos o si en estos se incluye una fecha especifica, la gráfica va desde 1944, fecha en la que nació Rem Koolhaas, hasta el 2020.
The seattle public library (Politicas de servicio)
Our mission is to become the best public library in the world by being so tuned in to the people we serve and so supportive of each other’s efforts that we are able to provide highly responsive service. We strive to inform, enrich and empower every person in our community by creating and promoting easy access to a vast array of ideas and information, and by supporting an informed citizenry, lifelong learning and love of reading. We acquire organize and provide books and other relevant materials; ensure access to information sources throughout the nation and around the world; serve our public with expert and caring assistance; and reach out to all members of our community. AimsWe intend to provide:
Read more on The seattle public library (Politicas de servicio)…
Compression
The fact that the contents of a whole library can be stored on a single chip, or the fact that a single library can now store the digital content of all libraries, together represent potential re-thinking: new forms of storage enable the space dedicated to real books to be contained; new forms of reading enhance the aura of the real book.
The New Seattle Public Library
Our ambition is to redefine / reinvent the Library as an institution no longer exclusively dedicated to the book, but as an information store, where all media – new and old – are presented under a regime of new equalities. In an age where information can be accessed anywhere, it is the simultaneity of all media and the professionalism of their presentation and interaction, that will make the Library new.
Seattle Public Library Commentary
Seattle Public Library Commentary“The library sits on a steep urban site with a 29-foot (8.8-meter) height difference between its boundaries on Fourth and Fifth Avenues. At the corner of Fifth and Madison, the wedge-shaped base of the library diminishes nearly to a point. A further dramatic change of scale occurs at the Fifth Avenue entrance to the building. The visitor enters a vast “Living Room,” a large unprogrammed space that offers Seattleites an alternative to brand-name coffee shops as a place to relax, socialize, read, and connect wirelessly to the Internet.
La demolición de la segunda biblioteca
imagenes: Swimmer,lara. process seattle central library.china. Provorse,barry,Documentary media.2004
La segunda biblioteca
1960
La nueva biblioteca de 62,800m2 costo 4.5millones de dólares. Para ser construida en contraste con la vista clásica del edificio de Carnegie, el nuevo edificio de 5 niveles poseía un estilo moderno internacional, diseñado con espacios interiores más abiertos y una ventana de servicio para los autos.
When it all began
1906
Cuando todo comenzó
Faltando una biblioteca permanente, la ciudad tuvo un motivo para recaudar fondos a filántropos, Andrew Carnegie. La ciudad compro una cuadra por 100,000dls. La construcción tendría 16,700m2 y fue terminada en 1906.
An enginnering challenge
Fuerzas verticales: gravedad y peso
Por su diseño poco convencional y los claros que parecen flotar, los ingenieros minimizaron el uso de columnas verticales (solo hay 20 en toda la estructura ) e introdujeron una serie de columnas perimetrales inclinadas. Para soportar el peso del edificio.