Dizigotic Gate 001
Guadalajara Central Library
Guadalajara, Jalisco State, Mexico
2009
CLIENT
MUNICIPALITY
TYPOLOGY
CULTURE - PUBLIC SPACE
SIZE MQ / FT2
28.000 - 300,000
STATUS
INVITED COMPETITION ENTRY
SHARE
The library is composed by two Dizygotic Twin Buildings connected via a central public space (the atrium-garden): they represent (and contain) diametrically opposite programmatic functions however genetically connected.
First & Second Version
Apollos (the book-tower) represents History and Mexican achievement. It contains all books. Dionysius (the reading/information world) contains a series of Reading Environments.
The library is an Urban Gate located at the edge of the expanding urban fringe, acting as a physical entry into the Centro Cultural and a visual connector to the city center and the mountains beyond a Global Portal.
Patrons are provided with a GPS equipped instrument (Book-Box) that allows them to locate books and copy/record significant chapters/ pages without necessarily displacing the books to distant reading spaces.