The mental space begins to shape human social behavior. — Marc Pimlott
The Garden of Earthly Delights: A piece from the triptych created by the Dutch artist Hieronymus Bosch at the age of forty, depicting the fantastical landscape of an expansive earthly paradise, where utopian life activities are immersed in wild nature.
Book Paradise: A paradise centered around the acquisition and reception of various forms of knowledge, conceived as a new type of urban space based on typological studies of libraries. Book Paradise is regarded as an extension of traditional knowledge domains into natural spaces, combining urban think tanks with natural landscapes. Books are not only our spiritual nourishment, but we also magnify the forms of knowledge exchange to encompass the entire urban space. Through diverse formats of knowledge dissemination, interactive behaviors coalesce into a multifaceted urban platform for knowledge acquisition, enabling richer knowledge to reach more people. Ultimately, Book Paradise evolves into an urban think tank for spreading knowledge. In the overwhelming information overload of virtual spaces, the motivation to participate in library spatial activities has already dissipated. We need to rediscover the three distinctive urban spatial values that constitute Book Paradise:
Breaking free from the constraints of the internet and returning to social public spaces.
Diversified combinations of knowledge-learning spaces.
A Book Paradise nurtured within nature.