atelier DAUN
Design Architecture Urbanism Networking
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Vertical robotic library - reimagine future of UTS library
2013
location : Broadway st, Sydney
Future library is about knowledge consumption and creation. We propose to have knowledge consumption by providing two of 25-storey books wall façades on one side of UTS tower facing toward Sydney CBD which round circulation as an access and connector of both book wall facades.
Moreover, the two façades are holed adjacent to every box to allow natural light come to void space. We provide two ways of getting books on the façade by robotic system outside and circulation of visitor finding a book inside. The new vertical library façade with robotic system promotes UTS as the learning center of advanced technology to the city.
Knowledge creation needs to be facilitated for student needs by working with faculty and community in the city in collaboration. It is happened on the space between the two book wall facades. The space is occupied by eight different boxes of faculties and connected by continuous social collaboration and circulation space. The position and capacity of every box is varied depend on the percentage of students enrolled in each faculty and curriculum relationship between the faculties.
We put the business as three separated long vertical boxes which connected to every faculty in different level because every faculty needs business knowledge to marketing theirs outcome and find theirs investment that can be provided by business incubation program. There are two horizontal boxes of engineering and IT faculty act as a bridge to connect the same level of theirs faculty in UTS tower.
The program inside the box is aimed for creating knowledge within its own faculty which is functioned as quiet private learning, teaching, research and exhibition space. The limited space inside the box forces students to make social interaction outside. We integrated different kind of activities outside the box to circulation elements for social collaboration between different faculty and community in the city.