DESIGN NAME: Jurong Library - Jinke Branch
PRIMARY FUNCTION: Library
INSPIRATION: We can fall in love with a library for ten thousand reasons. Yet, our fascination with it is in no way comparable to the writer and poet Jorge Luis Borges’s understanding of the library in terms of profundity and breadth. “The God brings to me a boundless sea of books but a pair of sightless eyes. The blind library is lofty and deep, while I fiddle with the books, exhausted and without much fruit. Even though, I’ve secretly imagined that the Paradise should be like a library.”
UNIQUE PROPERTIES / PROJECT DESCRIPTION: We hopes to pay tribute to the immortal God through this work. May his light pierce through this humble community library and enlighten the hearts of the readers, leading them to trace the real source of wisdom in the sea of books. We may have ten thousands reasons to turn away from and even rebel against him. Yet, as the night falls and the world is still and quite, the inquiries from the depth of our soul are resounding – Where do we come from? Who are we? Where are we going to?
OPERATION / FLOW / INTERACTION: The wind blows with the meaning. You hear the sound of the wind, but without a clue where it comes from or will go. The call of the God is like a faint sound that surfaces from the emptiness of the heart when the world is quite and you are enlightened to connect with God from the depth of your soul. That’s where the heaven is. The God, the almighty creator, is the source for thoughts and wisdom. All the living things of his creation exist for reason of his thoughts and wisdom. Thus, King Solomon wrote in the Proverbs, “The fear of lord is the beginning of wisdom.” Only when a blood bond is re-established between human beings’ lives and their Creator can any creations, the fruits of wisdom and thoughts, be properly benchmarked, and can there exists a possibility for finding out the path towards eternal truth and thus figuring out the eternal meaning given to any life at its creation.
PROJECT DURATION AND LOCATION: The project started in September 2016 and finished in June 2017 in Jurong.
FITS BEST INTO CATEGORY: Interior Space and Exhibition Design
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PRODUCTION / REALIZATION TECHNOLOGY: Wood,Metal.
SPECIFICATIONS / TECHNICAL PROPERTIES: 300 square meters
TAGS: The library,Book,Wood,Knowledge
RESEARCH ABSTRACT: The library represents the zenith of human beings’ spiritual pursuit while the heaven is the habitat where the soul craves to settle down. When looking up into the star-studded night and thinking about the vastness of the universe, we can’t help but asking ourselves: Can we see clearly this world around us even with a clear vision? Do we really have the ability to see the world as it is? When you stroll in the library packed with knowledge of the human beings and walk into the space-time created by all those books, knowledge and wisdom gleam like stars, giving out glaring lights. We long to be immortal and believe our wisdom can lead us to stride over the gate of immortality.
CHALLENGE: Change the owner of the consciousness is the most difficult,let he can accept the library can also be used as a living room.
ADDED DATE: 2018-01-17 05:39:10
TEAM MEMBERS (1) : Yi Chen,Muchen Zhang
IMAGE CREDITS: Photographer /Xiangyu Sun
PATENTS/COPYRIGHTS: Beijing Fenghemuchen Space Design
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