This thesis takes a serious attempt to combine internal ideas of “sectional object” with those of (exterior) “character” by conflating the understanding of object and subject hood. As a result this thesis aims to expand and hybridize notions of architectural shape by relating, posture and character with internal volumes and circulation as well as the interstitial spaces between them, and re-imagining it all, as an bold urban proposition. The animate aspect of the project, its square-robot-childeske character, is based on both its shape and a posture suggesting a motionless movement. As a response to the problem, my thesis offers answers in regards of both, uniqueness of internal programs many of which have their own form and shape and represents something greater than sum of their parts establishes a new and more democratic homogeneous space.

Situated in Bogota, Colombia the brief calls for a complex social, cultural and sports center, the program is broken down into several disparate parts. The unexpected juxtaposition of programs allows for idiosyncratic spaces to evolve. The original brief for the project itself is remarkable and consists of a unique mixture of social programs, such as an auditorium, meeting rooms, basketball court, semi-olympic swimming pool, recreational pool, exhibition area, vocational art center and various social areas such as café and dining hall. Its sectional attitude is seen in the internal distribution of programmatic and problematic objects, which seem to float within an articulate transformer-like body. The serious robot internalizes the display of the expressive architectural icon. Within an exterior that takes on qualities of muteness or monolithicity, one receives brief and enigmatic glimpses of a strange architectural object that is seen far away from the city reinforcing the street edge and negotiating a severe scale transition. As one moves in, around, and through the building, one constantly experiences brief glimpses of an interior object hinting at a sense of “city within a city”. There is a constant negotiation between viewing thesis as a serious building but also enduring a playful side suggesting this sense of a serious robot.