From what the critics had to say it seems that the project becomes much more interesting when the model is flipped open - allowing different things to occur. That the project should be less about circulation and more about the relation with the campus programmatically - the circulation is only how you move - not as important as the emphasis I have been placing on it previously. The moment when the cube is "cracked open" is beautiful.
Several ways of exploring this concept of cracking it open from a potential shift of the cube, or other moves that will make the amorphous core more visible. The core needs to be more expressive and apparent on the exterior - that it oozes out on edges, places become reading spaces, etc. (OMA project reference - blobs becomes programmatic space - also referenced Toyo Ito's Mediatheque). This expression can begin to be developed on the exterior, being a commuter campus there is a dramatic shift from day to night at UNAM and this could be greatly emphasized in the building (light up during the day in the amorphous forms - total darkness in them at night).
Decisions do need to start being made though on the vertical circulation. But, they did enjoy the way the stacks have shifts in space but that they can also start to do this in depth/density. Making gesture to the original library is good but the difference I am beginning to address here is that history becomes something with a density/volume unlike the "flat" history found in the murals.
For Tuesday, I will begin looking at the model as a cast in place entity. I have purchased some plaster of paris and will begin experimenting with creating an amorphous form with balloons/straws/etc inside a poured form and then cutting sections through it.
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