The assignment was to design a park library located in Hyde Park, London, in a plot adjacent to the Serpentine Lake, as proposed by an international competition. Departuring from site analysis, our methodology combineds the fields of biomimetics and tectonics.

 

Anchored in the tectonic notions of stereotomics and framework, students translated site conditions into sketches, physical and digital models, selecting one specific aspect as basis for their design.  The project shown here, the “Hybrid Library”, evolved from a mesh generated by the principle of “branched blocks”, which resulted from the correlation between blood veins and the various existing paths at the site.

 

Controlled by this mesh, a triangular pattern was created. The intent was that the building would be camouflaged in the park amid the treetops.