Vaentilazia

The Vaentilazia or Ventilazia (from Aridian Vaentilatod, meaning ventilated), formerly called The Grand Library, and now serving as the royal palace of Exousía, is a structure constructed in the southwestern most desert of Serrona.

The defining characteristics of Vaentilazia's architectural style do not seem to appear in any surrounding area, thus making it regionally unique.

The building's historical importance resides in it's creation. It is the largest building to date created by the now extinct Bai Federation, originally having been designed as a sizeable library to contain any document referring to the polity.

Planning
Before the creation of the Vaentilazia by Gabe Daridia, the area surrounding the building was undeveloped desert. The position was chosen so that a new town, whose region was planned to be named after the building, could have been easily constructed without being either too far away from neighbouring towns, nor intersecting.

Construction and Abandonment
While the design and construction process was supposed to last around four months, Gabe Daridia took much more to have a final image, and the foundations were built with considerable delay. After his disappearance, the construction work was handed over to a team consisting of Jae Numachi and Suno Nonnest, who finished the construction an unrecorded amount of time later, right before the dissolution of Bai, leaving the library in an unsupervized and decrepit state.

Renovation
In, Samuel Slimestein, Murdius and Vyani, fleeing from Yurki, would found a new city around the Library, which would be renovated and would gain the role of Royal Palace of Exousía.

Characteristics
One of the most evident characteristics of the Vaentilazia is it's lack of wood for it's exterior design. The choice was deliberate as to make the walls as sturdy as possible. Structural integrity is in fact one of the main features of the building, underlined by it's thick walls, thin roofs and high presence of arches.

Enviroment
An important consideration made by Gabe Daridia when creating the Vaentilazia was the enviroment it would be eventually be constructed in, this resulted in some prominent details:

The windcatchers, or towers, designed both to let cold air from higher altitudes into the building and to disperse hot air coming from the gates upwards;

The semi-closed windows at the bottom floor, designed to prevent sand from accumulating and to block sun rays from the most visited part of the building;

And it's overall position higher up, as to be in the way of as little sand movements as possible.



Shape
Before Having the shape it has today, the Vaentilazia was originally planned to have an hexagonal shape, as to make the building more central. Only later, Gabe Daridia decided to go for a more conventional design, and the building became rectangular.

Old Statues
In the plan for the Vaentilazia, Gabe Daridia had added two large quartz statues at the sides of the main gate. It is unknown if the figures were actually created, as their construction material made them expensive, but one source speculates that they were soon removed by scavengers looking for easy access to quartz. After their disappearance, the two sculptures were replaced with waterfalls by the Exousían government.

While sketches of them exist, it is unknown what these statues depicted for sure, although it is speculated that one was a raffiguration of Gabe Daridia himself, as both raffigurations own a Qeffyeh-style headwear.