Ever since the genesis of libraries, their role as an establishment and their relation to their users have constantly shifted. Libraries have been utilized as archiving spaces, then became open to professionals and scholars to access information, then later they became open to the public to access information. Libraries in today’s society have taken on the role of a communal civic gathering place where information is stored. This design of the new Chelsea District Library seeks to take advantage of the diverse traffic libraries see today and propose a new role shift. 

Libraries are where information is held, where history lives; this was looked at from a critical standpoint and then formed a desire to shift the role of a library from just having history and information to creating it.This design introduces production spaces in the form of large objects that play a 3D chess game in their placement throughout the space of the library. These production spaces create tension between the old function of a library and the new function that is proposed as they coexist together in the library. Production spaces are spaces in a typical library that have become a space where you can make or produce things. Within the large blobs or objects is a performance auditorium open to professionals as well as the community to utilize, an immersive room exhibition space accompanied by a project lab also open to visitors and professionals, and a kids and teen space that contains screened desks where kids can write their own stories and comics and have them printed and edited with the help of library staff. The experience of going to this library is like taking out a book and putting a new one back. Overall the project seeks to bring the community to the library and promote a new way of experiencing a library in the society we live in today.