New European Parliament
The Physical in the Age of the Digital
T. Cosma (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Olindo Caso – Mentor (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
R.R. van den Ban – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Teachers of Practice / AE+T)
J.M. van Zalingen – Coach (TU Delft - History, Form & Aesthetics)
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Abstract
As our society has entered the age of the digital, several problems have risen from the unprecedented amount of information circulation. While indeed the benefits of this instant access to information and data cannot be overstated, one cannot ignore problems such as misinformation. With that in mind, comes the problem of how could architecture deal with a society that is ever more dependent on the immaterial world provided by the digital in the context of politics.
This is where the parliament as a building typology factors in. It represents the intersection between political institutions (and by extension the societies they serve) and architecture. As such, the graduation project aims to explore how a parliament would look like in the context of an information society.
In short, the proposed answer of the project is injecting a higher degree of publicness to the parliament typology as stressing the physicality of such a political institution is ever more important. By trying to be more inviting to the public and more hones and transparent in regards to how its institution operates, the architecture of the New European Parliament emphasizes why actively engaging the public is crucial in an information society.