THE EXTROVERSION

Student at: Birzeit University
Course: Design4
Description: Transforming Architecture into a medium for Political Criticism
Year: 2010

Exhibition Sponsored by: Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency "DAAR"
Team: Hania Halabi, Sara Khasib, Diala Isid, Faiq Mari

The construction of the current building of the Palestinian Parliament started during the euphoria of the Oslo Accord, the location of Abu Dees (a town close to Jerusalem), was chosen as a first step toward the establishment of East Jerusalem as the capital of the future Palestinian State, with the collapse of the Oslo Accord, the eruption of the second Intifada and the construction of the Apartheid Wall just a few meters from the building, the project has been abandon and construction seized to itself.

This Story Board displays a material for criticizing the location of the Palestinian Parliament which was built in Abu Dees. Many Palestinians think that by placing the Parliament in such a location, the authority is giving up re-establishing Jerusalem as the capital of the Palestinian State. 

The tectonics of the building from massive walls, solid surfaces, and slit windows display an unhealthy relationship between the people and their national authority. Extroversion is a concept that completely criticizes this relation.

Extroversion of the Parliament is a concept of flipping the inside outside and opening up the obscurity and protectiveness of the building to the people and the surrounding landscape. It is an invitation for the people to voice their needs through its extroverted spaces. The flipping is based on 4 experimental grids that fasten the building in a web of fixed lines. Rotation is applied to each grid module with an angle of 180 degrees.