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Headline: Plans For Heavily Fortified United States Capitol Building

Caption: As a reaction to the storm on the Capitol by supporters of Donald Trump on 6 January 2021, “activist architecture studio” Opposite Office have designed a plan, called ‘Capitol Castle’, to convert the capitol to a fortress and thus protect democracy. Their version of the US government building in Washington, DC, sees its heavily fortified by a 1.5-meter-wide wall. They explain: “The seat of American democracy is a worldwide symbol for democracy and political stabilization. The storm of the Trump mop is one of the most dramatic rock bottom of Trumps reign and US democracy since the civil war. During his reign, Trump undermined the democratic system from within. To give expression to this drama, Opposite Office remodeled the Capitol and builds a fortress around it. A 1.5-meter-wide wall is added to the structure and protects the existing building. This symbolic conversion draws attention to the general problem of democratic systems that are facing populism, right wing nationalism and fake news. How can democracy deal with this?” Opposite Office say they an activist architecture studio that operates worldwide. The studio deals with “the architectural interaction of fiction and reality”. The organisation creates speculative architectural stories that are located in the political and social environment. “Thus, architecture becomes a medium for political participation and social discourse,” they explain.

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