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Maze of Encounter by Wai Chan
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The project begins with research into banned knowledge. This later shifted to discoverability, asking how knowledge can exist but still be difficult to…
Diagram showing how Rubik’s Cube pieces are translated into wireframed variations and aggregation templates
A physical model testing how edge, corner, and elongated expansion rules can grow from cube pieces into a maze-like network of paths and encounters
Most of the collection remains behind access-controlled reading rooms. This project aims to bring the collection into the public atrium, introducing…
The core concept of the Maze of Encounter: visitors are not simply led to answers, but redirected through clues, media, and chance encounters toward better…
One cube system becomes four ways of moving through knowledge: encounter, immersion, restriction, and circulation
Proposal of how Encounter, Immersion, and Vault Cubes occupy the atrium, turning circulation into a sequence of routes, pauses, and unexpected encounters
Visitors enter a non-linear lanscape of cubes, bridges and platforms
Encounter cubes aggregate into a public field of discovery within the British Library's atrium
Inside the cube, knowledge is encountered through movement, books, and media
A stabilised capsule carries visitors through the rotating cube, turning each shift in orientation into a new encounter
The immersion cube cluster, a quieter interior where the visitor is surrounded by books, screens, and moving frames, turning research into an immersive…
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Maze of Encounter

Wai Chan · 2026 · Second Year

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