Currently looking at how the experience of a journey through and to a building can involve someone in the architecture of the city and how heighten ones sense of self and involvement and participation within that city. Through materiality and a journey through a building, revealing and concealing particular moments through this space is the way I am going to acheive this architecturally. I will reveal old/new, City/building/self, structure/volume/space. The way these are revealed will capture the specific relationships between them along the journey. The final view, will reveal some of these moments along the journey, with another view of the city so one can understand the relationship between them.
The main assembly rooms of the building will do something different and offer a reversal of place. Whilst along the journey one has been the observer, looking out, seeing themselves as part of the journey to where they are now, the assembly rooms and perhaps the meeting spaces will offer a reversal of perspective wherein the subject becomes the observed. I enjoy how the potential of an assembly space doing this opens up a conversation of what an assembly room or building can be.
With all this in mind I cannot forget that at the end of the day this building is there to help facilitate public gathering in the city. So whilst I can have fun, playing games with space, journeys, and place within the city, I mustn't forget that this place has to eventually work for public gathering events.
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