The study aims to implement an anatomical exercise proposed as a condition of reflection. Mesagkala, a holiday settlement, is an assemblage of personal experiences, cultural manifestations and social tendencies, all imprinted on it’s built environment.
The settlement and its multifaceted character reveals a condition of (in)formality expressed in a series of idio-aesthetics of its habitants. Through fieldwork and observations, the thesis engages in compiling the manifestation of (in)formality imprinted on the built milieu of Mesagkala, on little details, on façades, on elements and on public space, in the form of a guidebook using mainly the architectural routine of a private ownership as reference.
Capturing the realness of the settlement with a keen and humorous point of view, the thesis questions the nature of that very personal approach of building and living as a possible way to enlighten impulses and desires. The observations concerning both architectural elements and the conditions of optical arrang