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In the production of contemporary community space we might consider what it means to be a member of the public today. Our society is shaped by the forces of global urbanism, digitized democracies, and hyper-specificity. This trend makes shared community space one of the last strongholds of common ground. How might the practice of architecture evolve with society and provide critical antagonization of the current state of affairs?

This graduate project explores the future of public architecture during the age of the echo chamber. Embracing the documented restructuring of architectural practice, this project shifts an architect’s attention from object to process. The proposed building is a community centre for Surrey-Newton, BC which acts as the context of an unconventional deployment of computational strategies that attempt to quantify the qualitative. Rather than optimize for physical efficiency, the aspiration of this process is to map a field of options in pursuit of a variety of experiences and chance encounters.