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Awarded 3rd Prize By Jury: Project 198
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Awarded 3rd Prize By Jury: Project 198
Grant Gibson, Chris-AnnMarie Spencer
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In a three-party democracy, the singularity of power & accountability that comes with the obligations of the Executive Branch is a symbolic condition. The last thing, its architecture should be is iconic. Rather, a new White House should seek to convert and/or subvert, this established relationship between an individual and the population. The President’s home should have the ultimate goal of being an environment that creates scenarios that bind the presidency with both its constituents and detractors into a new, ever changing collective. To do such the White House should never seek to re-affirm audiences, as iconic buildings tend to do. Rather its Architecture should seek to de-emphasize its formal significance and any ornamentation must be done with a constant awareness of the inhabitants’ spatial perception. Ornament cannot be seen as a tectonic or material expression. In the case of the New White House, it is to be considered as a tattoo, an appliqué, or nothing more than a treatment, secondary to the internal shapes and organizations. This secondary consideration transcends its status by becoming all-encompassing. The resulting saturation of form, shade, shadow and reflection blur the distinctions of each into a muddled spectrum of gray. Ultimately, this overwhelms the visual reading of the mass or void and leaving the inhabitant with little else to focus on but fellow Americans and the distance between them. At this moment in history, this is what America needs most, a building that focuses on creating environmental moods and experiences that provide new ways to connect individuals with each other and our leaders.