Both programmatic and formal configuration revolve around the transformative process that carries remnants of the original conditions. The programmatic and aesthetic shifts are dispersed along three sectors of massing which make up the main organizational approach.
Sector one, closest to the ground plane, contains portions of the library that can be recognized within all of its predecessors, such as offices, record rooms, and an information center. The formal strategy for this portion of the building reflects a more conservative approach connecting the dispersed massing to its formal ancestry.
Sector two is where the four-square geometry breaks, reflective of the programmatic shift within. This portion of the building serves the semi-public category of the program, offering reading rooms and study halls. More importantly, this second portion of the building houses its literature museum, the mausoleum. Here is where jewels of the literature world, lavish relics, live to be cherished for their roles and influence along mankind's history.
Sector three, highest above the ground plane, illustrates the greatest degree of transformation and is designed to fulfill the needs of a society engulfed within the digital era. Distributed along this portion of the library are the new pieces of the revamped library: fabrication rooms with 3D printers and mills, laboratories for sound, physics, botany, and robotics, along with oculus and projection rooms.
