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Assembly of Many Positions

The Provider allows an abundance of light, air, and rain into winding rooms.

Memory and knowledge are stored above the halls, leaving a vast open space for dialogue.

The positions start to adopt their own character (clockwise from top of plan): The Observer; The Careful; The Provider; The Admirable; The Listener; The Memory; The Willful; The Facilitator; The Assertive; The Parasite;

Drawings jigs were created to study multiple forces onto a drawing surface.

Next, a vessel within a vessel study was created

An assembly of many positions converging into a center became the diagram of the project.

Assembly of Many Positions
Assembly, Advanced Studio
Professor, Christ Bardt

The remarkably stable architectural typology of assembly halls throughout history have failed to reflect the unique nature of their architecture, a place that gathers people, opinions, disagreements and holds debates and negotiation. This studio probed the relation between the instability of governing institutions and their architecture’s stability, developing new ways of thinking and designing for representative assemblies. The project starts with a series of analogous experiments with material and forces. By closely examining how colliding forces interact in the physical world, it declares that the assembly hall results from many positions, each vying for prominence, and landing together in conversation. The assembly gathers people and ideas from different points of view and directions, who must settle negotiation and debate through movement, thus offering an abstract plan for considering the architecture of debate.