Illusio Bibliotheca
幻覺圖書館

Creator

Mak, Ho Lam, Phoebe 麥皓琳

Title

Subject

Interior decoration -- Design -- Exhibitions

College graduates

Date Created

2023-07-14

Relation

PolyU Design Show 2023: Profile Cards

YODEX Young Designers Exhibition 2024

Format

Photographs

Identifier

ASSD2023BAEDD16P001

ASSD2023BAEDD16P002

ASSD2023BAEDD16P003

Is Part Of

BA (Hons) in Environment and Interior Design

Award Winning

Description

Jorge Luis Borges’s “The Library of Babel” describes the deeply imaginative visions of a perfect total library with infinitely repeating spaces. In full recognition of “Relativity” by Maurits Cornelis Escher as setting, the design method is “optical illusion”, forming complex library spaces in terms of legibility, visibility, and perspectives. By adding Chinese and Hong Kong culture into the setting, the recomposed library of “The Library of Babel” is called “Illusio Bibliotheca”. There are six domains, including Heavens/Time/Calendrics, In Situ, Man/Society, Nature, Philosophy and Economy. It is designed using simple geometric shapes and mirrors to create a new context that amplifies eye trickery reflective perspective of views to create dramatic spatial experience. Through associating symbols and allegories to specific settings, spaces are no longer only drawing on flat surfaces, but also in imaginary three-dimensional spaces, making hyperbole and paradox work into the settings.

Collection

PolyU Design Show 2023

Illusio Bibliotheca 幻覺圖書館

Illusio Bibliotheca
幻覺圖書館