Bizarrchitecture: Difference between revisions

** The building we see the most is also the most bizarre: the Library. Noted for being connected to every other library and book store ''anywhere'' and ''anywhen'', the geometry is so complex that search parties sometimes have to be mounted for lost students. There's also the bit where there isn't so much a ceiling, just another part of the floor with more books.

*** It is also mentioned at least once that no matter where one goes in the Library, one always seems to be under the glass dome at the center. Presumably, this includes when one is in those areas where one can look up and see another floor covered with bookcases (although it is never actually mentioned if those floors above you are places where you can also look up and also see the floor, or even if anyone other than the librarian can actually REACH them, despite people being seen in them)...

** And there's also [[The Grim Reaper|Death]]'s mansion, which also has the same "bigger on the inside" and "rooms with infinite floorspace" problems. Notably, only the middle 20 square feet or so of the rooms are carpeted, and normal humans walk straight from the door to the carpeted space without noticing the area in between.

** Also Empirical Crescent, Bergholt Stuttley "Bloody Stupid" Johnson's masterpiece of architecture where no-one lives very long as the front door of No.1 opens into the back bedroom of No.15 and so on. It has a low crime rate, though. Thieves generally prefer to break into one apartment at a time.

** Speaking of B.S. Johnson, he also brings us a semi-inversion: Where a version of bizzarechitecture is that buildings are built to look like giant objects, Johnson actually designed a tea set that was eventually used as a set of buildings. The pepper mill is used as a grain silo, and four families (somehow) live in the cruet.

** Also the capital city of Krull, built mostly out of ships that were collected by the Circumfence.

* Which brings us to Hogwarts from ''[[Harry Potter (novel)|Harry Potter]]''. Staircases that move, walls pretending to be doors and vice versa, and the Room of Requirement that becomes whatever is needed by whomever's nearby. It is also implied that the entire castle has magically grown and changed over time, which handwaves the fact that a 1000-year-old castle wouldn't be anything like what Hogwarts is.