The Toxic Garden is an hybrid archetype which is formed by a library and garden into a singular spatial
entity, which is located at Burggarten at the Hofburg Palace in Vienna. The Austrian National library and the “Palmenhaus” greenhouse becomes the extension to a modern digital library where books are replaced with digital information. Toxicity is an architectural extension of a tech- While technology, growth of knowledge, and nature are formed into a singular volume that creates different types of atmospheres for reading, working, discovery, and community.