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The [Re]Construction Museum
Discipline: Architecture
Project Type: Public Building
Client: Local Community
Year: 2022-23
"We are starting a new cycle, the cycle to rebuild society that will continue to grow".
The re-integration cycle reflects that of the past cycles and what churches used to offer as a way of paying homage to St. Paul's church which now serves another purpose; a circus school. Churches in the past, weren't only places of worship but also places of refuge and safety and a pillar of the community. Churches used to offer aid by helping out those in need and providing food, clothing, money, houses and even mental support.
The [Re] Construction Museum looks at setting up a new community, in a heritage site that has been abandoned. St. Paul's church has slowly disappeared and is no longer the centre of community, nor able to provide the help needed nowadays. Through material making and traditional brick making, the new building will pay homage to the church while benefiting the community in this contemporary world, and acting as a ground to practice skills necessary for the construction industry.
As the contemporary world drifted away from religion, the church has disappeared and is no longer the centre of community, able to provide the help needed nowadays. The [Re]Construction Museum looks at using the materials on a heritage site to design a building that is community built with material manipulation being the inspiration towards creating a schedule of accommodation that accommodates workshops that allow people to explore traditional ways of making, display them and make profit. The scheme will offer temporary accommodation in exchange for growing one's skills in material manipulation and will work in line with the council until they gain their own independence like the rest of people in society and reintegrate back to it.
The condensation of research and ideas into one reconstructed concept
Deconstructing a Reconstruction: a concept model
The schedule of accommodation
The entire heritage site
The existing buildings to be revived
The addition of contemporary fused tradition
The dissertation is an exploration of a synthesis between the past and the present, the machine and the organism, to inform the creation of an architecture that moves away from dystopian ideals but rather humanises it. This piece of writing tries to establish a point where compromise is necessary as this affects the way a human corresponds to the ideals of the designs imposed on them.
The dissertation set a new challenge towards designing buildings that pay homage to the original footprint where the building lies. Every decision that was made throughout The [Re]Construction Museum project was inspired by the dissertation and not necessarily personal ambitions.
What it does is try to come up with a solution of how to embed a human identity in the one that already exists but is lost. And it looks at how personalisation in architectural design allows the area to have an identity that belongs to the people and preserve it by reviving traditional ways of making infused with a contemporary approach.
Modern architecture and the conflict in human and cultural identities.
The Dissertation: Humanising Dystopian Architecture
