Competition entry for Kansai Library in 1995.

This proposal for the design of the Kansai National Science Library in Japan conceives of the building as a simple machine continually registering, recording, and radically condensing the ebb and flow of complex information washing across this site. 

As an international center for the collection and ordering of humanity’s continually transforming knowledge of the natural universe, the library is constructed as a collector apparatus deployed at an essentially arbitrary point within the dense cloud of ambient knowledge and raw information flowing equally throughout both the natural universe and the intellectual space of human culture.