DIVERSIFIED FORUM
| ARTIFACT | The Diversified Civic Forum
Suggested by Deborah Ascher Barnstone in The Transparent State. | WHAT | GOVERNMENT HEADQUARTER Marketplace for thoughts and ideas Government Headquarter with legislative council and the public plazas are always built in a form with separated buildings which disconnecting the flow for a smooth public engagement. The level of public engagement to the governmental institution is always representing the level of transparency of a city. This is the reason for choosing the Government Headquarter Complex as a site to test for a design that can modify such a condition to a fully public engaged one which connecting both in and out to give out a message for welcoming rather than forbidding. As the government should be opened and accessible for public to get involved. The government should represent a pluralistic society. By understanding how the Government Headquarter Complex can represent the transparency of a city, this thesis project will begin with analysis on how government institution play a role in a city in terms of architecture and examples from different countries to reveal the possible outcomes when the government is developed acting as the bridges for connecting different voices. The help with different media with various energy transferring methods to contribute the public engagement in the complex will be explored and experimented in this project. Taking sound energy as an example, Government Headquarter will be used to start testing and using as a vessel that collects and redistributes the sounds of its surroundings, providing a linkage connecting different parties which can help contributing in public engagement. The thesis would also question if the spatial relationships can be reconfigured which public do not only participate an event in a space directly but accidentally. Also, if there is any possibility on introducing new programmatic relationships to sharp the role played by the government institution in the city which can help encouraging the public involvement. | WHY | CIVIC INVOLVEMENT Platform for Diversification and Possibilities Transparency of a city is always shaped by the government. ‘in political thinking transparency is linked to open and accessible government, while in sociology it connotes a pluralistic society.’ Suggested by Deborah Ascher Barnstone in The Transparent State. How transparency can be understand through architectural language? This thesis research project is trying to investigate the role as well as the rising importance of the government institution, which the Government Headquarter Complex would be the example in this thesis project, under the situation of how to enhance different voices can be expressed and interacted freely. The complex will be used as main focus in the government institution category and is being chosen as a site for exploration in this thesis project. This is because the Government Headquarter Complex is a place that represent the value of a city which tells the history of past, and make review on the present, but also gives out a hope to future of the city. Pluralism, in terms of political theory, is representing a marketplace for ideas, which goes with diversification and possibilities for power to be completed. Groups of individuals have a chance to try their role on maximizing their interests to express their ideas. The Government Headquarter Complex should be a representation of such a marketplace for individuals expressing their own point of views in terms of architecture. However, the authorized system did not provide enough routes or platforms for citizens to express themselves, this acts like discouraging the public to involve, separating them from such a marketplace for ideas. To change such a condition, how such a Government Institutional Space should be designed or transformed to facilitate public for expressing themselves in an architectural point of view? May the energy sources transfer through different media would enhance the interaction between different voices in order to make a better diversified civic forum? | HOW | CASE STUDIES METHODOLOGY
Design Methodology
In addition, this project will try researching the application on material and construction technology that can help in contributing the communication with the idea of sonic transferring method in terms of architecture. These studies, researches and analysis would help developing and refining the idea of this thesis project and hence give a clear direction on the later stage of the government institution design. | BIBLIOGRAPHY |
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