SEARCHING FOR AN IDEAL SITE AND DESIGN OF THE NATIONAL LIBRARY WITH ITS SURROUNDINGS

The city has become a museum, just another tourist attraction. There is actual need for its restructuring. The national library as an institution has the potential to mobilize its own surrounding and clear it from unfunctional structures. It seems that ideal location for national library is a traffic gap in between the historical city of Prague, Karlín district and riverfront of Vltava. A former place of mediaeval city walls is enclosed by dense traffic and new development of offices. I chose a significant location of the hotel Hilton and I am recreating this symbol of luxury consumption and shortterm tourist invasion to the public function which serves to all the people of Prague