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Towards a Slow Town Hall | Turin, Italy | Unit 21 | 2018<\/p>\n

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In 1909, Marinetti the founder of Futuristic Movement wrote in his manifesto that<\/p>\n

\u201cWe stand on the last promontory of the centuries! Time and Space died yesterday. We already live in the absolute, because we have created eternal, omnipresent speed. \u201c\u00a0<\/i><\/p>\n

He expressed his fascination of a future longing for the accelerated pace of development. 100 years later, people living at present feel themselves involved in this world of immense momentum yet no one knows how to get it under control. The accumulated urge has pushed us to the edge of the time when we are getting faster and faster, we create the illusion of gaining more from speeding up but the truth is that we have become so addicted to rush, and as a result, we forget what we are truly experiencing.\u00a0This project sees slow architecture as a philosophy that focuses on the experiential aspects of architecture, where space is considered as a journey instead of a destination.\u00a0This concept is addressed in a video form, which is this eighteen-minute long animation that experiences my project in sequence through the narrative of a boy called Carol from birth to death.<\/p>\n

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Our brief this year is set in Turin; and my programme is a town hall that situates at the north periphery of the city by River Dora. Turin is in its way of becoming an innovative cultural hub of Italy, the city is going through a series of fast changes, including metropolitan 2025 strategic plan, which aims to develop new cultural institutions and hold global events; the city is seeking for changes and opportunities. Under this circumstance, there is a need of a symbol or a landmark that gathers the people with the decision makers and facilitates these ongoing changes. By introducing these integrated spaces of slowness to the city as a town hall, the architecture becomes the agent that alleviates the current pressure of accelerated social adaptions and compressed time.\u00a0The design of it is based on the principle of using architecture as a spatial implement to slow people down by introducing and manipulating elements like pixel, water, wind, light and view.<\/p>\n

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