As I had said, in the last blog, my pursuits went towards developing this idea of a morphological system of floor plates that created space within the library's shell. The model seen to the right, shows in rough scale, the project as an enclosed volume. The intention, as was almost impossible to portray in image, was based off a metaphor that tectonic plate movement below the surface of UNAM's campus was producing this effect. That the library itself was harnessing the energy (which can also be very symbolic to the power that books held within have) and it was being absorbed by the floor plates of the building. The plates were built tight with the model "shell" so that when the walls were pulled off as a whole the building within seemed to expand out of compression from within. Dynamic spaces were created between floors through this interconnected (in areas) and disconnected circulation flow that would occur within the building. Support columns would pierce through the floors to give support as necessary but few would remain in a strictly vertical manner - diagonals and slants to emphasis a kinetic morphing of the interior was applied here.
The building arises out of a volcanic, turbulant landscape, stretches upwards releasing this energy until it is resolved at the roofline with the plates folding over one another to finish the volume. I did feel that the concept allowed/wants future growth of the library - potential for this idea to keep expanding - that its power cannot be harnessed by the walls of man, the mind (influenced and educated by the book) is the most powerful weapon. The building was spray painted a mix of lime green and red to symbolize that these plates are even absorbing the color of the facades on the exterior as they dissolve this energy rising from the ground.
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