Zahra Ebrahimi

I am a final year Architecture Student, passionate about Art and Architecture. My aspirations include getting registered as an Architect and travelling all around the world. I get inspired by reading, nature and my culture. Often, when I get stuck in the design process, I tend to gravitate towards those. Being a scholarship student, I value learning and the process of learning which motivates me to work hard. It has helped me develop a strong work ethic as a student of Architecture.

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Re-Ordering Terrain

Events like protest and festivals that form processions, have the capacity to reorder terrain Agency over data was a strong metaphor that guided the direction of the project. Acts of protest are common to the site of Town Hall. Since agency and protest go hand in hand, a new layer of public space is created where people might meet, organise or rest along the route of a procession. This was done through developing stairs as a promenade over the data halls, giving the public a sense of agency over data. This process involves an intermingling of essential requirements of a data centre, service cores and a place of gathering that faces Town Hall. Fragments of the past retained, some through the old facades and others through reclaimed materials that were turned into functional seating/ installations that gave geometry to the space. Therefore, the project responds to Town Hall as a public vessel that allows for Protest or facilitates an audience for protest. Designing a space that allows for experimentation, through its response to Town Hall and Data resulted into a structure that can potentially become an Archive of interactions and thus place. In the end, protest as infrastructure for people to latch onto is a concept visualised through the project.

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