Theory # 6: Mass and Void watercolor relief model and intervention.

The mountains hugging the central
void creating a volume in between.


Overall the water color relief model was designed to enhance the idea of mass being private power of the theocracy and the void being the people. For the water color relief model the mass and void relationship was created by popping up the surrounding context to form an impenadrable mass that pushes and volumizing the void found within the center of the site. While the Temple of Inscriptions is sunken down and collapsed to make room for the intervention.

The intervention is about a revolution. A new center for democracy is created by bulldozing the massive structure of the Temple of Inscriptions leaving only the original passageway to the ruler Pacal 's tomb (or void). This temple is a skeleton where before the inner workings of the government were hidden but are now exposed. A person enters the temple in a closed off individual experience with no reference to the tomb of Pacal. As a person moves up through the temple they come to meet and discuss with more and more people. As the passageways climb up they start to fold around the tomb of Pacal while mass falls away and the structure its self becomes more and more exposed accumulating in a completely free and open platform on the top.
The layered passageways of the intervention.