The site is a place to test the architecture of the library as mediator between the highway and the city. The site requires an architecture of both civic monumentality asserting itself in an urban condition as well regional iconography experienced from a highway. Hence, an architecture on the site can mediate between the highway and the city, monument and icon, slowness and speed, and local and regional. Hypertext can be used as a metaphor for the contemporary context of the library as well as the actual assemblage of spaces and forms within. Architecturally, the library is the edifice of public information access, dissemination, and storage.
Architecture also enables the construction of a place for a civic event.
Information interface is the primary civic event embodied within the public library. The architecture of information interface at the convergence of highway and city will be explored within the library. The public library is also a focal point for a discussion of the public realm and public space in the Information and Computer age. In the library, the pubic realm and information interface occur where the internet, sidewalk, highway, and citizens meet.