ALA

The most basic element of human architecture is said to be the roof. The ultimate expression of politics is the wall.

The project presents a removable and reusable pre-fabricated security wall system.

The parts are intended to always find a new place and the next use for themselves. It might end up being be the next media-favourable counter-national crisis or a shorter term use in limiting urban space.
With time, as the wall will never be cleansed or given to hands of censorship, it becomes a documentation of history, feelings of rage and desperation, and individual expression throughout times.

The project communicates an attitude of both, extreme optimism (stating that every crisis and all walls will fall at a point in time), and extreme pessimism (stating that people will not ever learn, and such walls shall always be needed among us).

Imagining oneself in a situation of living with such a structure makes one wonder what a fine line it can be between optimism and pessimism, hope and desperation.

Indeed, the project is a parody of the all-embracing pragmatist ideology of contemporary European architecture. But being that – an architectural caricature – does not mean it’s anywhere near humour.

Politicians create ideological structures. Architects create physical structures. Art-makers create intellectual structures (the project is intended for just one of these categories).