The Bibliophilic House

Multi-family Housing for Book Lovers

YEAR

Fall 2025

COURSE

UCLA AUD 122 Studio II

INSTRUCTOR

Katy Barkan

About the project

Based on O. M. Ungers’ House Without Qualities, this project applies overlay, rotation, and offset to the original orthogonal system to construct a multi-family house organized around a shared central library. Two families inhabit parallel yet interwoven circulations, moving through thickened walls, stairs, and bookshelves that alternately open and close toward the library. The resulting interior produces a dense, sectional experience that reads as inhabiting the inside of a bookshelf, shifting between compression and spatial release.

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This will hide itself!