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ARCHIVE:
Provides
a place for archiving events, productions and the work of participants.
It also functions as an administrative support system and student
registry. Like the Library and the Social spaces it runs right
through the length of the Panopticon structure.
Tatlin's
'Monument to the III International' houses the archive. Vladimir
Tatiln proposed the Monument to the Third International in 1920
as the new Communist party headquarters. At one thousand three
hundred feet tall the kinetic structure was both monument and
office building to house the communist party's administrative
mechanisms. Many models of the structure have been built, but
the vision was never completed. Within the archive section of
the Panopticon the Monument to the Third International reclaims
its essential function as a mechanism of organisation.

The open
steel structure consists of a girder spine supporting rib cage
of two off centre spirals that run down the length of the structure.
Slung inside this exoskeleton hangs the Euclidean office structures,
consisting of a cylinder, a cube, a pyramid and a half sphere.
Each geometric structure rotates at a different speed, reflecting
the organisation it houses, once a year for the general assembly,
once a month for the central committee, and once a week for the
executive offices. These rotations reflect the social and organisational
cycles within the Panopticon's infrastructure.

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