This was a part of a group project that tackled tension as a motivator of 5 separate design projects, in confrontation with Paceville in its current state and the state recommended in the Paceville Development Framework.
Alexander goes on to speak of how ‘a family has couples and groups within it; a factory has teams of workers; a town hall has divisions, departments within large divisions and working groups within these departments.’
He concludes by saying that ‘the more monolithic the building is, the more it prevents people from being personal, and from making human contact with the other people in the building.’ Whilst Christopher Alexander explained divisions by demographic, our analysis went further to investigate how similarly each group or activity requires different amenities, and how these also have divisions between them.
This system will simultaneously provide the narration of this project’s timeline and will become a bookmark for the system’s evolution. The mechanism will be constructed and then make way for construction. It will simultaneously build, and erase, and will be dependent on the parallel processes alongside which it stands.
This will develop a relationship between interfaces, giving rise to morphing nuclei and loci of persistence.
Here, residents could become audiences, and residents can welcome audiences and the tension there will be between the activities at different times will foster a new energy that will characterise this space.
The phenomenology of this insinuation is best understood when the two processes are viewed in parallel. In considering the constant flux that these spaces are in, the generation of a cultural identity will be built on the value this site’s process presents and therefore builds on the identity that we have been trying to conserve from the beginning.
It will serve to marry the ‘under construction’ and the liveable. This conservation was important because of the wealth that has been inherited and the identity that can be built on. Here the notions of authenticity and ‘Product Malta’ are being tested. This is what Malta, and indeed Paceville can stand for - unique to other progressive cities and without the importation of foreign aesthetics, it is proud of the constant process and a place where moving forward is not simply a preface but a narration that is ongoing. Our analysis during ‘probing the plan’ of certain negligence shown towards tokens of memory and of phasing, as well as the indisputable generation of a new, greater community, are what inspired this process.
