History of this site within framework of the program transforms this project into a space-time continuum. Every house refers to another house, we always build upon fragments of what has already been built, so that the culture is in constant replenishment. The structure is seen as a tectonic necessity, a part of the whole, as a new ornament. Since the very dawn of civilization, libraries have been the highest cult-places of externalization of the mental stratum. And as the city owes its layers’ complexity to the passage of time, so each library embodies a spirit, representing "the Place", a point of reference to who we are and what we want to be. Physical remains of a mid-location sometimes do carry both. The modern library is a technological subject, it is at the same time a producer, a container, a server, and an anachronism. The existence of Mediterranean spirit of Ljubljana is substantiated with evidence in the form of Roman camp artifacts, and is resurrected as a kind of structural canopy of tent-framework which gives support to the whole building. The proportions of this site and irregularity of its lot dictate a standardization and unification in the design, with variations of subject adjusted to meet the specific needs, creating a unity in its complexity.
The duration in time is arranged vertically in the hierarchy. And although the composition of plot is linear, a closed and a rigid structure, it is in a constant entropic interaction with effects on the environment.
"... Library, which some of us call the world, infinite and periodic, where things are always repeated within the same chaos, which is transformed into order by repetition. "(J.L. Borges)
The counterpoint of card vs. dekumanus as a starting point continues into the spatial coordinate system, defined by overlapping of frames that provide the framework of the pergolas, filled with cubuses of the given functions. At the level of excavations, the existing and new ground-plan overlap with classic luxorian setting of pillars-pylons which carry the superstructure of the library. According to this principle, the spatial-functional units develop almost as independent objects, they follow the proportions of the city and obtain their micro-conditions and an air of intimacy. The names (the buildings, too) are a consequence of things.