The resulting sectional conditions are a series of stacked arched rooms that open up across a central atrium. These instances of recognizable remnants hold the grand reading rooms and the central atrium. The fragmented walls along the central atrium allows for indirect natural light to come through. This natural light bathes arched walls that are closer in proximity, highlighting their voluminous qualities.
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Given an unspecified site in downtown Los Angeles, the library was assumed to be in a highly dense area, forcing it to lie between existing mid to high rise structures. The challenge of natural light in this context influenced the need for a central atrium with terraced rooms to converse along the interior space.
However, a dome is not compatible to the organization of the conventional stacked floor placement in mid rise buildings. By deploying it within this field condition, rooms formed produce a different orientation of spatial hierarchies.
The elevation is monolithic in nature, conveying situations from sectional conditions. Material changes and tectonic seams extend across the front facade facing the public; it is once you cut through the monolithic feature that the interior structure reveals the unconventional stacking, resulting from remnants of a fragmented dome.
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