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_A NON-LINEAR ACCESS TO KNOWLEGE AND MEMORY Through individual experiences, collective events, and cognitive exploration, memory has the capacity to influence and be influenced by architecture. This is specially more apparent with young ASD individuals whereby cognition emerges from and is found to be grounded in sensorial interactions with the environment.The Bookmark aims to also utilise these uncelebrated devices of quiet rooms and documents to develop a visual and spatial memory of the library to encourages independent narrative sequences with each subsequent visit by the individual.
The duality of light and shadows expressed through the library’s section also indicates an experiential procession. Acts of browsing and reading are respectively delineated with the location of library stacks and documents in the vast and denlike subterranean spaces in contrast to intimate and brighter reading and study spaces above. These reading rooms are also designed as comfortable breakout spaces and sanctuaries that dampen external sensorial stimuli for quiet contemplation and reflection.
