The New National Library is a hybrid typology between utilitarian functionality and public grandeur. 60% of the floor area is solely used as storage space, only 20% of the floor area is open to the public. The presence of 10 million books creates a monumentality by shear number, similar to baroque libraries visitors and … read moreemployees are completely surrounded by books. With generic typologies such as supermarkets as a model the scheme juxtaposes the programmatic necessities of separating magazine and public spaces with the baroque approach of universal presence. The enormous size and complexity of a National Library reflects into simplistic spatial matrix. In plan the 97,20 m deep open space is structured by supportive cylinders and voids in the floor. The voids connect spatially to the lower floors, which are mainly used as magazine spaces. http://www.architizer.com/en_us/projects/view/czech-national-library/1256/
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