TABLE

As an act of participation, architecture has the capacity to fundamentally affect the management of space and the politics inherent in its creation. For architecture to retain any social relevance, it must become a spatial generator for processes of social interaction and integration.

Here it is taken back to a single element — a table, enlarged and celebrated as an object for sharing — food, ideas, stories and performances.

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The pontoons donated to form the site are arranged in a ring to create a platform for inhabitation around the table. The standardisation of these pontoons allows the structure to reflect their use as a device of both control and liberation. The stru

The pontoons donated to form the site are arranged in a ring to create a platform for inhabitation around the table. The standardisation of these pontoons allows the structure to reflect their use as a device of both control and liberation. The structure transforms these modules of systemisation into a space of freedom that encourages gathering and collective exchange over separation. The void left by the pontoons is completed by the table, which appears to float just above the platform’s surface and the water below. Eight columns emerge from this floating base to hold the central table and support an arched canopy whose simple crossed plan focuses the space inwards.

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The exposed nature of this unmediated structure revels in a contrast between the formal tradition of the banquet by revealing the activities of the conspiratorial gatherings taking place within as a direct contrast to any authoritarian control of te

The exposed nature of this unmediated structure revels in a contrast between the formal tradition of the banquet by revealing the activities of the conspiratorial gatherings taking place within as a direct contrast to any authoritarian control of territory, space and its formal representation.

The table will be the focus for both supper clubs and soup kitchens, community and policy forums, lectures and exuberant performances, or just being together with others.

A place to table an idea and encourage debate to help challenge control…

or resolve disagreements.

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