This article by Nicolás Santiago Diaz Bejarano was originally published in the 16th issue of revista rita under the title "Architecture for Objects: Toward a Post-Human Architecture: Density and Compression in the National Library of Chile." The following text offers a reflection on the relationship between a closed building under tension—a national library—and an open component that defines it: its storage stacks.
“Ordinary things contain the deepest secrets” (Evans, 1978, p. 56)
