Virtual Agora Part 2 Project 2015 Nassos Hadjipapas Oxford Brookes University Oxford | UK Addressing the problems of community detachment in Palestine and the existenceof obstacles both physical and notional, to popular representation, the project aimsto re-calibrate the issues of the people as a unity in conjunction with the disputespertaining to its physical territory.The Athenian Agora is used as a thinking model to investigate a new architecturalproposition, where territories are plotted strategically through the trajectories of1948 Palestine. The map of the agora is drawn by extrapolating andsuperimposing historical and geological data, as well as by plotting the routes ofmigratory birds to create an ever expanding time-based digital archive that will betransferred and safeguarded away from the vanishing Palestinianlandscape;simultaneously a physical archive will reclaim its archaeologicalsignificance to the Palestinian civilisation.The new Parliament takes its form under three main programmatic functions. Thephysical archive which reclaims the lost landscape.The digital archive which creates an independent network of communication anddata, for the Palestinians in the diaspora and the ones in West Bank and Gaza.Finally the resilient programmatic functions of the parliament which empower thepeople to occupy it and thus make it their sovereign representative. Tutor(s)