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ON LILITH’S HOUSE IN EDOM 02
2020 - 2021 I SPECULATIVE/ALLEGORICAL ARCHITECTURE
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The overall programme for the project investigation is a contemporary programme such as tourism that provide the economic ability to foster a new era of heritage and conservation. This allegorical architecture argues that traditional architectural conventional programme approaches to interventions can often destroy the heritage they advocate preserving. The project proposes testing guerrilla architecture as a viable new approach for contemporary design interventions on historic industrial sites; guerrilla architecture interventions can both challenge and strengthen the notion of place. The thesis argues that guerrilla architecture interventions can become active participants in the on-going evolution of the site’s history. Often such historic industrial sites are dangerous and fragile. This project investigates habitable guerrilla architectural interventions that are responsive to the progressive evolution of a site’s decay. The project argues that different types of guerrilla intervention can offer different modes of experiencing a site by framing significant moments within the site’s history while retaining them safely at a distance. Often important historic architectural moments are concealed by the very ruins themselves. This project proposes that by acknowledging and unveiling layers of significance hidden within the rubble, guerrilla interventions can safely begin to reactivate, reconstructed and redefined these lost significant moments and reclaim the historic site as viable once again. Figure x.xx shows the cooling tower of an abandoned power plant in the industrial heart of the dystopian city of Edom. These obsolete archetypes are ideal vehicles for the conception of speculative architectural interventions necessary for the near-future. Through their inhabitation, as opposed to their destruction, community and industrial heritage can be maintained and celebrated. This project proposes that this can be achieved by introducing a forwardlooking architectural program providing a utopian identity to the Edom – making it self-sustaining and independent from existing urban infrastructure – and enhancing the narrative potentiality of the site.
Design Tutor: Daniel K. Brown
Project Stream: Architecture & Dystopia/Architectural Narratives Stream
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