A biblioteca de Babel: Um ensaio epistemológico de projetação arquitetônica para uma biblioteca contemporânea

Abstract

The work addresses the epistemology of the architectural parti and the impacts of technology at this stage of the design process, using the short story "The Library of Babel" by the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges as a reference. The objective is to explore how different interpretations of an architectural parti can guide the design of a contemporary library through parameterization. Using the methodology of "A Pattern Language" by Christopher Alexander (2013), solutions adopted by various architects are analyzed, leading to different interpretations of the architectural parti, from which the one with the greatest potential for further development was selected. In this context, the research adopts a qualitative approach, focused on the understanding of meanings, and is exploratory in nature, aiming to better comprehend the causes and consequences of an architectural parti in the design of a contemporary library.