The way information is produced and spread in our time changes the traditional way it is gathered and categorized as well as its retrieval process.
Faced with a new type of collecting, sorting and storing digital information, it seems to be necessary to go a step further than the ‘hybrid library’. The lack of prior known cases in this field, caused the work to begin with the composition of an original typology.
Describing, as best possible, the internal operative system of the digital library, this informative organization-the needs of internal networks electromechanical installations as well as non-measurable qualities-developed in a series of charts.
Having described to the fullest the internal functional system of the digital library, there was a need to gain physical substance and therefore a built background to take flesh. A long process of critical sorting of urban voids ended up with the skeleton howl in the crossing of Tsimiski and Katouni streets in the Ladadika district in the city of Thessaloniki.
Intervening in the building skeleton, removing whole or parts of slabs and staircases as well adding new external staircases was necessary to allow public use.
After placing the predefined spaces of the new typology inside the building background, all the internal diagrams had to be reformed according to the spatial limitations. This resulted in places to extend beyond the boundaries of the existing skeleton, creating ‘lumps’ on the surfaces, self-organizing the geometry of its external appearance. The final result is a synthesis of the internal diagram development and the translation of the non-countable diagrams into handlings of circulation, visual connectivity, assuring or not of accessibility and finally, covering the volume with a metal net, capable of protecting the internal of the building and the users.


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