Abstract
M.Tech. (Architectural Technology)
Over the past two years, I have been interested in a number of issues that can perhaps best be summarised in the word ‘power play.’ Last year’s work looked at the carnival and the carnivalesque as a space outside dominant cultural codes; this year, using the idea of an embassy as a conceptual and programmatic ‘driver’, my Major Design Project is ‘The Embassy of Embassies’, a super-embassy or über-embassy, located on the Cabeólica Wind Farm, a few miles outside the capital city of Praia.
Looking at the embassy from three vantage points, ‘far’, ‘near’ and ‘on’, the intangible becomes tangible, the scaled becomes scale-less, and the unseen becomes seen.