Wall as a Center
In contemporary complex circumstances, tangible and intangible walls still separate societies and descend the collective life. From Trump’s wall and his travel ban to Brexit, common people have dealt with serious obstacles. This proposal is a reaction for any political, social, racial and religious segregation. Our wall is for connecting not for dividing, which is open for meeting, gathering and communicating. This could be a center, a social hub, a structure made for the people, not an expression of power.
In contemporary complex circumstances, tangible and intangible walls still separate societies and descend the collective life. From Trump’s wall and his travel ban to Brexit, common people have dealt with serious obstacles. The ‘WALL as a CENTER for PEOPLE’ by Inter-Esse studio, is the 1st winner for ‘the wall’ competition. This proposal is a reaction for any political, social, racial and religious segregation. IES (Sadeghi-Dinani) state: “The wall is for connecting not for dividing. A center, a social hub, a structure made for the people, not an expression of power, which is open for meeting, gathering and communicating. Unfinished façade of the Basilica San Petronio in Bologna is completed by people’s presence. Here, there is no mecha-nism of control. The importance of the façade of the Church with a vast shadow and the power dominated the Piazza Maggiore from Middle Age, wherein our tempo-rary framework representing the authority of citizens to resolve an old conflict. The face of the church has therefore become a social space rather than a spectacle screen. Everyday life on the face alters the silent wall into vibrant space-wall. This wall breathes. As a civic scene it radically provides a possibility for representing hu-man infill rather than a material infill. The wall is no longer a neutral condition. It is a container, not merely a viewer. This composition is a ‘layering of life’, namely col-lectivity, within the margin, not superficiality for a surface enclosing a center. The wall eventually embodies the center within a ‘border’, not a ‘boundary’ around a center. ”
