Description:
The polemically charged Jerusalem has been formed through a chaotic layering of diverse cultures and has been shaped over time by immeasurable clashes of force and resistance. The landscape is defined by a series of successive variables marked by rigid social belief structures. In a city built through ages of contention and conflict, truth becomes a blurred spectrum. The existence of trust then becomes a process of selective reasoning, forming splintering and vastly differing bias and perspectives on any given event. Vacuums and voids are then formed to further define the landscape of difference and irregularity. The intent is to understand the socio-political fabric of one of the most turbulent cities in the world to allow a new perspective on international urban design and architecture. The architecture of a place is much like the law structures and governments of people within any respective county; architecture is a derivative of tradition, morals, religion, history, collective hopes and social disparities. To truly understand the meaning of appropriate design, we must create a foundation of truths.
Focus:
The proposed project combines these concepts to inform a new medium of social interaction based on the pure and fundamental procedures of cell generation, with the existing values and perceptions of media, to mitigate conflict on the scale of micro-political negotiations catalyzed by a reorganized structure of social epistemologies, yielding a result that is closer to an all encompassing spectrum of truth.
