- The objective was to design a library; a public space which would act as both a communal center and as a space which would draw people by foot into the nearby commercial center of the town.
- I thought that was silly, that no one uses libraries, and that throwing a building on the site would cause more division between residencies and buisnesses.
- So, I designed a building which would be fun to walk through, and which hid the books and lounging areas in a place where they'd be temperature controlled and free from the crippling grasp of time: underground.