Eric Owen Moss

Nombre completo Eric Owen Moss



Lugar de nacimiento Los Angeles, California

Universidad que lo tituló University of California at Los Angeles (1965), University of California at Berkeley, College of Environmental Design (1968), Harvard University Graduate School of Design (1972)

Aportación de la Biblioteca José Vasconcelos 
La intención de la obra era fomentar la lectura en el país. En el concurso de diseño, el proyecto de Moss quedó en segundo lugar. El proyecto ganador fue diseñado por la firma mexicana TAX de Alberto Kalash. 

Concepto de diseño del proyecto 

The design strategy for the Biblioteca de México extends the organizational systems of the surrounding neighborhood into the building, thus suggesting new prospects for public participation, interactive learning, and exhibition opportunities.

The site is first connected from north to south through the new “Calle de los Libros.”  The surrounding streets extend onto the site and intersect with thisNew Street, forming the main organizational system for the New Library.
The northern end of the Calle de los Libros is excavated, leaving an amphitheater, gently sloping toward upward towards the Buenavista Station.  Temporary seating, oriented toward the new street, can be placed within the New Amphitheater, or exhibits can be mounted over the sloping surface.
At the northern end of the Calle de los Libros a portion of the generating station is extended over the railroad tracks to house a restaurant with broad views of the city.

The soil excavated to create the New Amphitheater is re-used and stacked as a linear, acoustic mountain along the western edge of the site.  This provides a large open green space for the library visitors to enjoy, and also shields noise from the adjacent Buena Vista Train Station.

At each intersection of Calle de los Libros a courtyard is created demarcating an activity center within the library, and also serving as large outdoor reading room.  The walls of these courtyards slope southward to bring sunlight into the courtyard and the library.

The main entry, located at the Southern corner of the New Library, is folded and lifted five stories vertically to create a new plaza that connects the Biblioteca de Mexico to the Buenavista Train Station.

Comentarios acerca de la obra

Moss llamó a la biblioteca "un proyecto maravilloso" pero describió el proceso de la competencia como "un poco opaco." "Yo creo, siendo honesto, que nosotros ganamos el concurso de diseño," dijo Moss. "Creo que no ganamos el dilema político involucrado."

Michael Keller, bibliotecaria en Stanford University, quién sirvió como consultora al despacho de Moss, fue mas contundente. "Yo creí que el diseño ganador fue increíblemente prosaico. Creo que escogieron al arquitecto for razones nacionales: un arquitecto mexicano."


Otros Proyectos de Eric Moss

3555. Culver, California

Angewandte. Viena, Austria

Cactus Tower. Culver City, California

Spiretec. Greater Noida, India



Wrapper. Los Angeles, California


Bibliografía

Adrià, Miquel, Isabel Garcés, Tomás Casademunt, and Luis Gordoa. Biblioteca Vasconcelos = Vasconcelos Library. México, D.F.: Consejo Nacional Para La Cultura Y Las Artes, 2006. Print. 


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