New archive footprint
Based on the addition of the the top 10 largest National Libraries in the world, I came to the conclusion that the New archive of Humanity should:
- cover an area of 2 million square meters
- be built to contain 200 million books (this is only the unit by which we measure the scale of the archive, not the only type of object contained within the archive)
- be powered by a work force of 20 thousand employees, hence suggest the development of a neighbourhood around the archive.
If the center of this conglomerate is the Walled town of Neuf-Brisach in North-Eastern, the archive sprawls out into the French countryside.
Of course this is very diagramatic and I am currently looking at the possibilies of expanding new fortification based on the existing boundaries around the town.
- cover an area of 2 million square meters
- be built to contain 200 million books (this is only the unit by which we measure the scale of the archive, not the only type of object contained within the archive)
- be powered by a work force of 20 thousand employees, hence suggest the development of a neighbourhood around the archive.
If the center of this conglomerate is the Walled town of Neuf-Brisach in North-Eastern, the archive sprawls out into the French countryside.
Of course this is very diagramatic and I am currently looking at the possibilies of expanding new fortification based on the existing boundaries around the town.
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