Temporary Futures and The City: Prototype futures for urban revitalisation by Chris Bourke

And the city Architecture Research Portfolio.

Initial Hypothesis

Chris Bourke, “Carrington is Aarhus”: University of Newcastle, 2018.

Initial Hypothesis “Temporal Architectures enable cities to rapidly experiment and provide platforms for protest.” The aim of this design research is to critique “Temporal Architectures” and provide

These camps are ephemeral and have all but disappeared, the perceived time-frame

a hypothesis on which future research will be based.

of architectural narrative is short lived. Where Rice would argue that “architecture need not be permanent,” Architectural

In 2017, I travelled in Denmark and visited the city of Aarhus the 2017 European Capital of Culture. I was particularly interested

Theorist Juhani Pallasmaa provides a counter that contemporary buildings “seem to be all about the moment of ‘now.’” It is

in a particular fragment of the city, the old freight railway station at Godsbanen. This site, within 1 kilometre of the city centre,

important that we view rapid architecture as an expression of the time in which it happened.

has underwent a renewal and now has facilities for performance, events and

Time, in terms of rapid architecture is short.

conference spaces. Open workshops have been set up for community use, free of charge, enabling creative practice to

The short time frame in terms of the city can be very valuable, where vacancy may take place for many years. Bishop provides

flourish with crafts people, “artists, theatre designers and entrepreneurs.” Professor Perter Bishop identifies this area as a “zone

the example of Architect Roger Zogolovich, who has encouraged “meanwhile use” to take part on the site of his development in

of tolerance” within Aarhus, in this area I started to identify architecture that was

London, these cases provide necessary discourse to take place with city author-

temporary and radical. Temporary and radical architecture, allow

ities. This talks to the idea of zones of tolerance, when city authorities encourage the temporary activities and buildings to

activities to occupy public space and politicise a message or protest directly through the form of these architectures. The Occu-

take place, cities and policy can adapt. Bishop argues that “An over-planned and over-regulated city is a sterile city,” in terms

py Movement of 2011 – 2012 is one such example, Professor Louis Rice argues that the architecture of the Occupy Movement

of the city of Newcastle, this statement is probably appropriate.

was “transient, ephemeral or fragile” which is representative of the “society that erect-

In researching and critiquing the information surrounding this subject, I began to

ed them.” The visual of a makeshift, tarp tent, in a public space, in a western city, occupied by as stated by Architect Critique

form the hypothesis that: Temporal Architectures enable cities to rapidly experiment and provide platforms for protest.

Ipek TürelI “well to do college student[s]” is a powerful protest image.

Temporary Architecture Strategies

Strategy for the use of space where after maturing the use remains after the temporary occupation has ended and possible redevelopment occurs.