Page 36 of Design for our future selves 2001 Awards by Helen Hamlyn Research Centre - Royal College of Art

34 Harry Dobbs/Architecture Interiors underground library An architectural study that builds on the contrast between the transient and dislocated world of the London Underground and the solid psychological world built from our own imaginations and fuelled by the media we read as we sit on the Tube. The Underground Library draws the two together in the physical space of the station.Commuters share reviews of the same book, meeting and exchanging literary views and thoughts in a virtual world as they move through the system. Engaging with one another under the protection of evirtual distancef, there is the potential for different levels of intimacy to arise within this urban public space.

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