Mausoleum of Currency:
Replicating Fictional Monument
Currency undeniably swaying since the euro crisis in 2008. Group of thirty, an independent entity which comprises globally had the initiatives to revolutionize the monetary system in creating a whole new understanding of currency. The project’s brief can be interpreted as one of the wakeup calls for financial institution throughout the whole world for better perspectives in preserving the value embedded within the currency. In other words, the currency value should materialize within its purest forms so the entity which symbolizes the currency can be hinder from extinction and contamination. As Frankfurt stood strong as the financial capital of euro, Berlin is proposed to be the contingency plan to substantiate the relevancy of euro and currency and if not, become the ground rule in establishing currency as the purest forms of materialization.
A criticism of the current system of currency which fluctuates and wavers.
The intangibility of today’s currency system creates a vague opacity to the flow of money globally.
The evolution of currency system from the bronze ages till now suggests innumerable alteration and development
on how the financial system has been gone through and inevitably making its way to the downfall of the currency itself.
Another way of appreciating currency in a way that can be treated as something that is tangible and sturdy in its establishment.
The materialization of the banking stone as some sort of regalia/insignia/sigil which can be a symbol of power, stabilization, and revelation
across vast aspects such as politic, economic and social agenda. The output of the criticism is a pure expression of power and wealth.
The justification of a materialization gives an end to the argument of empirical value and instruments of power.
Can be both a Rival and a Savior to the current currency system which underpinned the idea of a Land-bank
which was once practiced throughout the whole wide world in giving an alternative to financial development.
The idea of materializing currency evokes a sense of representation within something that is stable enough to be perceived and apprehended.
Berlin was chosen as the key player in developing a new way of appreciating currency as a criticism of current financial capital which sited in Frankfurt.
The emergence of the commercial city, financial district, federal territory and residential demographic of Sudliche Friedrichstadt gives a
provocative resolution on how the exclusiveness of currency-making-archiving can be integrated into a complex tapestry within Berlin.
The building proposal as a political, economic and socio-cultural symbol which undermine the current system of currency.
Appreciation of value is read in an antithetic manner within banknotes which encrypting the real value which symbolizes the pride of nations
and groundbreaking notions throughout the era. The materialization of these new currency archived in a place which can be
witnessed by anyone and anyhow.
Those fictional monuments symbolizing a new currency be kept in a vault/mausoleum as if it is a necropolis of the current currency system.
The programs embedded within the building proposal is a juxtaposition between human and robotic which inevitably essential in criticizing
the future’s endless/unlimited power through raw technology. (to translate/to replicate/to perceive/to archive)
To design a building which symbolizes a pure expression of power and wealth on top of a currency necropolis.