BORGARALEG HöLL | CIVIL PALACE

by Josephine Kawiche

The project seeks to give a voice to the hidden people of Reykjavik. I use the term ‘hidden’ people to refer to the disenfranchised population on a large scale and the innate need for human beings to have a voice or feel heard.Recognising that there is a delicate balance between facilitating and revealing or even exploiting the architecture seeks to become an escape from the ordinary. The architecture response should recognise, celebrate and establish the ‘hidden’.