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Varvara Domnenko

Varvara Domnenko

Brooklyn, NY, US

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The State Capitol of New York

Public role in elections maintains the bottom-up formation of the Constitution. Each state has representatives in the Senate, which then participate in the legislature. Laws then influence the public in the top-down direction. Therefore, all laws could exist only with public support and then be facilitated by the government to reach its final form.

The project idea is that the main function of the Capitol building is to provide people with public goods. This very exclusive function, oriented on large amount of people at the same time, stays separated from other types of activities to prevent its unique role from bureaucracy and commercial benefits of other organizations, which work on the microeconomic level.

Applying the idea of isolation, the Capitol building is considered as an island inside the urban fabric of N.Y. To create a productive connection between the public and the government, the building also serves several types of public attraction. Through the building of the Capitol go two spirals, which exist in one space, but do not cross each other. The spirals represent the public way, which is attached to the Capitol, but does not break its independence.

 
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Status: School Project
Location: New York, NY, US