resistance, making it suitable for cyclic loading situations, like in its seismical active location. From an electromagnetically sensitive viewpoint, both glass and polymer are inherently nonconductive, so they won ' t attract lightning strikes. The overall building is calculated to cope with strong earthquakes and has a pressure resistance, comparable with the load hundreds of meters under water, making it resistant to avalanches or a large rolling stone.
SACRED ARCHITECTURE
The library was envisioned to be more than just an underground book repository. It needed also to touch the realm of the sacred. Not in religious terms but rather in the notion of free space, where the mind can wander through the spatiality of nothingness, the void. The inner ' empty space ' was mould on a geodesic dome, a multidimensional pyramid. Physical confrontation is a vital factor in the experience of the library. Its architecture is based on a fundamental one-to-one experience of space, and will continue to survive even when long lost its content. The project is a reaction on the contemporary cultural mindset, which lost its anchoring in past traditions, long-term thinking, but most of all, many of human ' s values and integrity. It hopes to transmit a message of hope towards many young people who are struggling the conceptual storm of our uncertain times and deeply disillusioned with the spiritual emptiness of industrialized civilization. The project supports however the driving force of the development of civilized mankind, thinking that the impetus is right, but not the course. The project ' s goal was to transcend the predicaments of the human condition, by producing an architectural womb that is strong, timeless, deeply rooted in its local context and universal. To do so, things and experiences were researched that do not change in design, questioning the dictums within the Egyptian, Roman, Moorish, Christian, Jewish, and other ancient cultures, with the wish to reinstate them in the realization of the library as a small cultural temple. In many ways the project is as much about making sense of our world, as it is about reflecting what we should do, or how to prepare for a cultural shift.
The library was constructed in the winter of 2012-2013 by Alex Brimmell & Son( dome builders) with a team of volunteers from the Beneficio eco-village near Orgiva. The project was helpfully coordinated by Mark Knight( author), and developed by Louis De Cordier( visual artist).