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Biblioverse - Multifunctional building with library
Koutný, Radim ; Závacká, Paulína (oponent) ; Bykov, Oleksii (vedoucí práce)
In order to properly understand the things and information around us, we learn to categorize, organize and put them in the ''right'' positions. This order of metaphysical sequence requires the idea of an indisputable first (original) instance whose identity is independent of what may come after it. Thus, for example, the good is the primary instance, while the bad (defined as the absence of the good) is secondary. Similarly with the natural and the unnatural, the normal and the abnormal. By using presupposed language and perspectives, certain groups of users marginalize the perspectives of other users and give the impression that some perspectives are normal and others are not. The way libraries, temples of scholarship, are often constructed with the aforementioned assumptions. Typologies of library buildings often have a clear order, categorizing, defining, giving a clear message. It guides and navigates us to where we belong according to our assumed activity. Such a constructed space is probably well-intentioned, but it does not offer the necessary freedom; on the contrary, it forces visitors to follow archaic stereotypes and conventions. What is normal. Such a space resembles a well-written choreography. A library pretending to be a free public space in reality functions more like an anonymous book lending library, an individual reading room, an anxious casemate, where by not respecting the rules of typology your visit can come to a quick end. To what extent can the space be used for debate or other forms of human interaction?
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