Bricks

It was only two days ago that the book trailer for The Ark Lords was posted but already the questions have come flooding in. Statistically, the most questions have come in regarding the physical appearance of Rome's Library of Life (originally called The Human History Library). Here are two pictures of the library from the trailer:

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So the big question is: This is the 35th century! How come it doesn't look more futuristic? How come it looks like it was made from bricks? The answer is it isn't. The Vuduri would typically build such an edifice out of aerogel. Rei went along with their plan. He simply had the aerogel stained with brick color. He did this for the very same reason that the library looks like something from old Earth. He knew Rome would want it this way. The library was supposed to be for all the people of Deucado, in fact, for all of mankind so she would not have wanted designed in any particular style. She would have wanted it to appeal to the Essessoni, the Deucadons, the Ibbrassati and the mandasurte and even the Vuduri. So Rei had it designed and built generically.

That's the reason. It was on purpose.