School
University of California, Berkeley
Date
Fall of 2015
Instructor
Stephanie Lin
Category
Public Library
The course focuses on the conceptual design process, dealing with not only the forms and spaces created by subtractions but also the cultural aspects of the site. The course has three different projects to develop a concept towards a completely functional library: Double Negative, Circulation, and the Library program.
Negative spaces are the actual habitable place where people can use and interact with outside, but the concept of double negative is to create a special condition where a form or space does not exist physically but conceptually. Many places in real life have double negative conditions, but the matter of the concept in architecture is how to make it more efficient, considering the effects of the substractions from a solid.
The whole project was to build a new library to replace the “former” Potrero Hill Branch Library on 20th street in San Francisco. Before actually design a library, conceptual development from double negative to a public stair project helped to understand the spaces and the site better.
