Snehil Tripathi

AR3030

The Berlin Wall was the manifestation of hatred and anxiety produced by politics. Upon studying the history of the wall, one could feel the disregard shown towards the identity of the individual. A moment in time when international politics triumphed over the feelings of the imprisoned human; when the highly-cherished human conscience was forsaken by one’s greed for power. The project is design-led research that aims to challenge the anthropocentric creation of architecture - which has been prevalent in Europe since the Enlightenment. As Freud identified, the imperfection of the human condition demonstrated across the twentieth century and our insufficient knowledge of the human body compels us to break away from tradition and find new ways to create architecture. One such process was introduced in Peter Eisenman’s Scaling during the 1980s.