EXEMPLARS

Centre Pompidou

richard ROGERS + renzo PIANO

people power COMMUNITY CENTRE - "which adapt the building to the needs, rather than the needs to the building," Richard Rogers, 2011. "a building that response to peoples wishes. we didn't want a dumb box - we wanted something that related to the people and the people related back."

the building was designed a pack of kit-able parts that the building users could control, where as the front of the build was to be made up of a talking façade containing a vast array of audio-visual screens.

the connection to the people through the act of symbolism. each screen would be showing different things. the building could link up with the GOMA, the PARLIAMENT HOUSE, so you could read the side of the building. 

"who is going to control this façade," Richard Rogers, 2011. Though the problem with this sort of power is it can be controlled by ANY ORDINARY PEOPLE and could be to much of a political statement or bias. 

"it could have been the moment when buildings became truly playful, but the world had moved on." tom dyckhoff