Final project: Kobi Ruthenberg _ Instructor: Dr. Yasha Grobman

The library has traditionally served as the physical reservoir of knowledge. Yet, the information technology revolution, compressing time and space, making our public and private experiences increasingly aspatial and asynchronous, challenges the very definition and role of libraries.

Increasingly affordable computing power combined with the spread of on-line services gives the web-surfing public access to international libraries and database direct from home or the office.

Topic

What then will become of the library typology and its civic role? How will information technologies redefine libraries, and what kind of challenges do we encounter attempting to create 'place' in the atmosphere of 'cyberspace'?Can we think of a way to collaborate the two realms, the physical and the virtual, in order to create new connections between the two and enhance by that the sense of "actuality" of the virtual and the "abstract" of the physical?

Question

Through questioning the role of the contemporary public library, this project will ask whether it is possible to imagine a "barrier free" physical space which distributes information rather than knowledge, allows free access to all and provokes participation, aiming to enhance public communication and generate a new type of public "living room".

Rational

Site – Location

Site – Urban schemes

Site - boundaries

An isolated Island

Intensive data–

Gradient Field

Intensive - Catalogue

Hyperprogram: Indexing Through Spatial Quality

Extensive Data -

Scalar system

3D Data Matrix

Excitable medium

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagram

Voronoi diagram – Gradient field

Voronoi diagram – superposition of gradients

Voronoi diagram – application and actions

sections

4 facades

View From Shmuel Hanagid St.

Level 1

View From Ben Yehuda St.

Level 3

Exterior view _ Level 2

Level 5

Interior view _ Level 5