Architect-Nality
Supervisor: Dr. Peter Brew
“Architect-Nality”, as a combination of Architecture & Personality, proposes a perspective that sees a building as a person, its elements and contexts as its personality.
The project itself then is a discussion about conversations and the characters involved. How similarities and differences make the individual and the group. What is a conversation and what exists beyond.
“To be political, to live in a polis, meant that everything was decided through words and persuasion, and not through force and violence”
- Hannah Arendt, the Human Condition
Hannah Arendt suggested that everything in human civilization: the culture, the history, the relationships, can be seen as it’s constructed by conversations, and so is architectural projects. Though it’s always been said that projects are indeed conversations, in this case, the subject of the conversations is not architects nor clients, but the building itself.
The function of the project is an office building as well as co-working spaces for the newspaper/journalism website: The Conversation, which is operated by various universities and institutes. And it decides the personality of the site: a junction of multiple, different conversations.