ATLANTA AFTER PROPERTY SAMPLES CATALOGUE
COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY GSAPP | A6820-1
TABLE OF CONTENT COLLECTIVE SAMPLES
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01 COUNTER PUBLIC SPACES 02 ENCLAVE SPACES 03 LILONG 04 SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK 05 DEMILITARIZED ZONE 06 COLLECTIVE FARMING 07 BED-STUY URBAN ENVIRONMENT 08 CIQIKOU SICHUAN OPERA THEATER 09 KUMBH MELA 10 TRAP HOUSES 11 STREET VENDORS
12 TOLOU:COLLECTIVE HOUSING 13 PERSONHOOD OF PROPERTY 14 SEIGE OF PROPERTY 15 BATRAM’S GARDEN 16 VILLA 31 AND PORCHES 17 SPACES OF SOCIAL COHESION 18 LUNCH BASKET 19 GANESH CHATURTHI 20 STEEL REBAR EXTENDED ROOFS 21 CROSS PROGRAMMING BY URGENCY 22 MODULAR URBAN INSERTIONS
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COUNTER PUBLIC SPACES
Within the regime of property, the public sphere is a highly policed, contentious space regulated by the whims of property owners. The counter-public appears in the cracks of this facade, negotiating their existence in the public sphere by reclaiming temporary pockets of space and forcing a confrontation with dominant groups. While still heavily policed, these groups are able to remain visible and present their discourse at the edge of and oftentimes directly to the public sphere itself. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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ENCLAVE SPACES
While counter-public groups are able to confront dominant groups within the public sphere, other marginalized groups are denied entry. Enclave spaces then arise in defiance of the public sphere, allowing marginalized groups to build resistance through fostering a collective voice and expressing communal joy that is otherwise policed and restricted. As the creation of enclaves is done out of necessity, they are highly temporary, fluid spaces constructed to last only as long as needed. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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LILONG SHANGHAI
Lilong, means “a communitycentered along a lane or interconnected lanes”. They are residual spaces created between the private properties of the Shikumen housing. The neighborhood’s high density and compact spatial arrangement lead to the spill out of activities into the lanes, transforming them into a communal space, facilitating activities and gatherings. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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SAGUARO NATIONAL PARK TUCSON, AZ
Collective land acquisition along the linkage between the Saguaro National Park and the Sweetwater Preserve is an effort by the National Park Service and local residents against the regime of property. This collective resists the cycle of capitalistic development by buying, selling, and donating land parcels to preserve rather than monetize the pristine landscape. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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DEMILITARIZED ZONE (DMZ) NORTH KOREA - SOUTH KOREA
The DMZ is a 2.5 miles wide strip of land along the border between South and North Korea - a buffer zone to prevent armed clashes. This wide strip is a place where two different ideologies are overlapped. This 161 miles long border has various border conditions by geological condition, agreements between South and North Korea, or attempts to invasion. Although the warfare is still going on, the buffer zone blurs the conflict in two different political ideologies and provides an opportunity for reconciliation. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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COLLECTIVE FARMING INDIA
Collective land stewardship in India is not only a tool to protect the natural environment but also used to undo gender and property discrimination. These farmer’s collectives impel the hitherto marginalized women towards self-sustainable, selfsufficient, and self-governed economies to challenge the notion of land and labor ownership along with gender barriers. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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MAGNOLIA TREE BED-STUY URBAN ENVIRONMENT
The Magnolia Grandifloratree in Bed-Stuy, championed by activist Hattie Carthan, was one of the few left in a neighborhood where the city’s disinvestment was reflected in the poor maintenance of its streets. By classifying the tree as a living landmark, it gave the space it occupied protection through the law as its root system extends far past its canopy, and the protection thus projects into adjacent lots. This designation imposes upon the regime of property as the tree’s sphere of protection restricts future development and preserves stewardship of the adjacent properties within the neighborhood. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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CIQIKOU SICHUAN OPERA THEATER CHONGQING, CHINA
The functions and meanings of a property can be redefined by the people who use it. The Sichuan Opera troupe generated the potential of different spaces to create “theaters” during their relocation, including in parking garages. The theatre makes full use of limited space through cohabitation, versatility, and shape-shifting of temporary spaces over a period of time. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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KUMBH MELA INDIA
Allowing the natural environment to dictate the space and time when the community can use the land defies preconceived bounds of the built environment and the regime of property. The unpredictable expansion and contraction of environmental factors determine the way people adapt and live with nature and not against it, as is evident on the site of Kumbh Mela. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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TRAP HOUSE
Through subverting traditional domestic activities associated with the private home, trap houses begin the narrative of converting small family households into public gathering spaces, thus defying the regime of property. This system can be applied to any space that emanates a specific set of expectations of spatial and functional characteristics from the exterior but hosts seemingly dissociative activities in the interior. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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STREET VENDORS SOUTHEAST ASIA
The static conception of an imaginary boundary is challenged daily by mobile vendors in South Asia. They temporarily settle in street corners, urban nooks or plazas, carrying with them an evershifting boundary of property and access. The act of selling goods can also legally trespass physical borders such as fences and doors. Vendors therefore, are autonomous agents who defy the enclosures of property and system of taxes. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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TOLOU: COLLECTIVE HOUSING CHINA
Tulou is a housing typology in rural China based on a shared porous courtyard surrounded by a fortress with housing and shared intimate spaces. Common spaces belong to all residents and to no one at the same time. The collective space extends the interior into the exterior and vice versa, hosting daily activities, exchanging of produce, meals, and events. Individualized property is then reduced to a standardized room to create a horizontal relationship between family and neighbors. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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PERSONHOOD OF PROPERTY LAKE ERIE
Lake Erie is the fourth-largest lake in North America. It was severely polluted and exploited by the industries nearby, leading to water supply shortages in the surrounding neighborhood. Later in 2020, the lake was granted basic human rights to mitigate the pollution issue. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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SEIGE OF PROPERTY
The siege of property provides a strategy against gentrification, in other words, against the regime of ownership of the “have” over the “have-nots.” By being against gentrification, we mean the relationship between the local stakeholders and the big developers should be mutually beneficial rather than being hostile. Freaknik, Pizza Polling, and Gerrymandering, as we see them, are three steps towards the siege of property through the exploration of stakeholders sprawl and regrouping, and also surrounding the big developers. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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BARTRAM’S GARDEN PHILADELPHIA
The place of natural resources in the property regime determines how it can benefits communities. When a natural resource is considered someone’s property, its value is often ignored or abused. However, when the value is recognized by someone and set free from the regime of property, it can generate more value for communities, which is a kind of mutual aid between human and natural resources. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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VILLA 31 BUENOS AIRES & PORCHES TUSKEGEE, ALABAMA In the past, black people were not allowed to drink and play on the street, so the porch was born as resistance to power. People of Slum occupy the property illegally, and they grow and develop their property here. Due to the different reasons, both of them break the boundaries of the existing property and generate a large amount of semi-private space as a transition between indoor space and outdoor space. This kind of space provides community residents with more opportunities for communication and interaction and increases the scope of activities for minority groups. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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SPACES OF SOCIAL COHESION
NYC’s stoops blur the boundary between public and private space. Singapore public housing employs spatial strategies to give a sense of self-ownership of one’s space through the void deck, open-air hallways, and more. Colombia’s Comuna 13 utilizes outdoor escalators and murals to change one of the most dangerous areas of Medellin into an area of newfound freedom for its residents. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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LUNCH BASKET
In a highly patriarchal society like India, many women are confined to domesticity. Despite these difficulties, women find ways to bond with each other because they can only rely on themselves to share knowledge, friendship, and life advice. The film The Lunchbox explores how these connections form a third space to empower each other against traditional society. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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GANESH CHATURTHI INDIA
The Ganesh Chaturthi festival is a large celebrated event where people open up their homes to others for the viewing of the festival from the street level below. The act of voluntarily allowing the public to enter their homes to celebrate creates a sense of fluidity between private spaces. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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STEEL REBAR EXTENDED ROOFS AMMAN
Property is not permanent. It has the susceptibility to be affected by growth from both inside and outside driving forces. Located in Jordan, Amman is under this kind of development process. Building and architecture are in the circulation of construction and deconstruction. The extruded reinforcement columns serve as a gathering of the practice of city vernacular that has the connotation of temporary occupation instead of perpetual ownership. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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CROSS PROGRAMMING BY URGENCY
Temporary seizure of property at a time of “urgency” collapses scales of occupation and program in re-asserting priorities of food, shelter, and health at large. In this subversion of seemingly permanent spaces, cross-programming rethinks inherent associations of need, of ownership and of function - from private to public - in forefronting the collective. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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MODULAR URBAN INSERTIONS
Beyond static conceptions of space, modular urban insertions, in their layered nature, allow for multiple understandings of and potentials within the site. As catalysts of change, low-cost, high-impact modules activate sites of former refusal. Consequently, playing into one’s perception of public space and ownership while redefining programmatic and territorial boundaries in their conglomeration - as it lends to community gathering and productive interaction. UD STUDIO II AAP | SAMPLES CATALOGUE
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