How can a project become medicine to residents?
The Roundhouse was built with a promise of authority becoming transparent and a connection to the public. However, the project was built upon other people’s homes and disparaged those residents from their houses. The design of the roundhouse though has a certain brutalist elegance with its panels and uniformity; its form resembles handcuffs, and the opaque walls erected cause a contradiction to what it was supposed to stand for. Now the building is left lifeless. The form of the addition is that of a syringe pushing to an underutilized lifeless building imposing a break to the opaque uniformity by injecting a more transparent intervention that is spaced to house families in Chinatown. The once concrete fortress is now punctured by a transparent-sharded syringe, physically the shard syringe injects, and the roundhouse reacts by concaving inward creating friction to heat the once-lifeless building. However, the medicine is homeopathic, thereby stimulating residents’ senses and organization spaces to inject the building and residents.
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