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New Form
Embassy of the Future Since the 1950’s it has been the diplomatic mission of the Bureau of Overseas Building Operations (OBO) to provide secure, safe, functional, and properly maintained facilities for the conduct of U.S. diplomatic services and for the promotion of U.S. interests worldwide. Since then, threatening changes to international security and diplomatic operations has shifted the original goal of producing friendly local buildings and diplomatic presence toward compound-like building complexes and centralized institutions. Largely as a reaction to the increased number of global bombings directed at US Embassies during the late 1980s, OBO facilities have become more analogous to bunker construction than architectural design. At the global level, embassies have been removed from urban centers, and the daily diplomatic operations and consular services have been forced to work from these margins. Moving towards a new era of diplomatic responsibility, the Standard Embassy Design’s joint study Embassy of the Future suggests that rigorous security concerns should not be constructed to the detriment of projecting a visible and positive diplomatic presence of US Embassies in the world’s urban centers. PEG’s Embassy of the Future Prototype aims to manage risk while maintaining the diplomatic necessity of urban presence. A series of attempts at developing a global US Embassy prototype began under the supervision of Secretary of State General Colin Powell in 2005. Void of concrete results, a follow-up study in 2007 set out with many of the same goals. During this brief time span, the OBO had opened 68 new buildings and added 29 more to their already lengthy list of projects under construction. Now well over 100 embassies have been built without meeting any of the concrete research goals set out by Powell. In February 2009 a global embassy prototype that deals with the performative and representational demands of the building type across a wide spectrum of political and diplomatic climates (i.e. from global leadership allies to warring nations). It is the suggestion of PEG that an architectural prototype must construct the image of new US Embassies across a gradation of iconographic, representational, and material strategies in conjunction with politically calibrated massing strategies. Iconography/Fenestration
Representational Idealism
would be impossible. PEG’s research has focused on the demand of the global embassy prototype to adapt from one location and political climate to another. For example, a prototype that is iconically American must be able to mitigate its branding from near invisibility to overt architectural
Fitting In
Diplomatic Permanence
potential strategies rather than actual solutions themselves. The categories of ‘metaphorical materiality’, ‘representational materiality’, and ‘mimicry’ are the most variable. It’s their goal to accommore limited in their expression. Each of the iconographic strategies is applied by determining a ‘iconographic/fenestration’ possibilities of the category.
Stewarding Attention
Massing Friendly Permanence
Managing / Limiting Attention
Covert Operation
Much of what has been mentioned about iconography applies to massing, but the ground, silhouette, and skyline elements that corr political stability index of a future US Embassy site. By combining these politically calibrated elements, the general building mass will then be determined. As with the selection of a building’s ‘iconography/fenestration’ elements, PEG has determined that there is a range of possibilities study to select the most appropriate elements from the suggested options.
Censorship Trade-Embargo Non-Negotiation