The voices of narrowboat dwellers are often unheard; they face difficulties in accessing services alongside recent threats such as reduced mooring sites. The proposal provides a Parliament centred around a debating chamber with auxiliary facilities such as a GP and launderette. A processional staircase wraps around the chamber with moments allowing for scrutiny and observation. A floor-reactive fabric façade system regulates internal daylighting and demonstrates the transparency that the government promotes. Viewing the site as a boundary, conversation becomes the central component that stitches this seam. Pockets of spaces allow for recording and playback, with a broadcast centre, printing press and library all working together within the archiving process. Tape recording is used as the method to preserve their traces on the site through oral histories; something of particular value given their nomadic lifestyle. Deriving from the idea of the ground as an archive and for low/zero-carbon and sustainable design, rammed earth construction is utilised.