The Parti Communiste Francais (PCF) is currently suffering from an important financial and popularity crisis, which has forced its leaders to rent-out part of their famous headquarters. This listed building was designed by Oscar Niemeyer in 1970 in the midst of the Cold War when the PCF was an important political force in France. Niemeyer's initial intention was to create a democratic ground for the people. Yet today, this ground has now been blocked by fences for security reasons which makes the building look and perform like an isolated monolith. In addition to having circulation problems, the building is over-exposed to direct sunlight. The proposed project is an attempt to bring back the democratic ambition of the original design, by creating an ‘architecture of accessibility’ for both pedestrian and climatic flows. This will be achieved through creating a new public museum program extension and public plaza on the side and back of the building. This new plaza-gallery addition will be linked to the side market-street avenue through a new secondary entrance created by a sloping, multiple level, accessible ground system. Along it, a highly calibrated lighting and circulation component diffuses direct light and pedestrian movement, creating a fused environmental and social strategy for the original Architecture, in order to communicate a new political statement that combines ‘green’ with ‘red’. In July 2008, the party held a conference to renew itself.  With my proposal in hand I asked them: "Could Architecture be part of this renewal?".