Master's Portfolio

Women in Architectural Scene in Europe

A Mapping Study through the Analysis of ElCroquis Publication Number of mentions in regular editions

(Each edition is allocated to one or a group of architects)

Number of mentions in cumulative editions

(Each edition is allocated to a subject. Ex. Collective Experiments

Stephanie MacDonald

Zaha Hadid Nathalie De Vries Benedetta Tagliabue Julia Bolles Farshid Moussavi

Master’s Portfolio SaraUğur de GilesGüvenç Author:

Ellen van Loon Lucia Cano

Anne Lacaton Fuensanta Nieto Escola Tècnica Superior d'Arquitectura de Barcelona Màster Universitari en Estudis Avançats en Arquitectura Annette Gigon Barcelona (MBArch) Contemporary Project 2017 - 2018 Louisa Hutton

Madrid

Cristina Diaz Carme Pigem Helena Njiric

Sevilla

CONTENT CURRICULUM VITAE ACADEMIC WORK Contemporary Architectural Issues “Women in Architecture” Research and “Paper and Cardboard” Exhibition

Materiality and Project Natural Fiber Rope Pavilion

Urban Project, Ideas and Praxis Reconstruction Strategies in Glories Area

All Scales of the Project Rotterdam Münster

“Things I learned in Barcelona from other Places”

Berlin

Architecture, Energy and Environment “A Day in the Life of a Martian”

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Zurich

Zagreb

UĞUR GÜVENÇ

CONTACT

Architect

+905349263420 ugur.guvenc@protonmail.com

EDUCATION Licensed Victuallers’ School

July 2007

(language education in Ascot, London)

(2 weeks)

Science High School

2008 - 2012

(science education in Balıkesir, Turkey)

Middle East Technical University

2012 - 2017

Universidad Politécnica de Cataluña

2017 - 2018

(bachelor’s degree in Architecture, CumGPA:3,37/4) (Master in Advanced Architecture, CumGPA:8,21/10)

INTERNSHIPS Summer Internship at Isparta/Turkey on Cultural Heritage Conservation (documentation of historical buildings in plans, sections, elevations and details)

Construction Practice at Ünal Akpınar Holding - Teknopark Ankara

(concrete applications in real scale, wet wall constructions, fine works of interiors)

Architectural Internship at Yazgan Design & Architecture & Construction (Sejong Urban Plaza Museum Complex, Korea - competition entry)

Architectural Internship at Avcı Architects & Partners

(house renovation in Slovenia, facade design in a mixed use complex in Saudi Arabia)

June 2014

(2 weeks)

July 2015

(4 weeks)

June - July 2016

(5 weeks)

August - September 2016

(6 weeks)

WORKSHOPS & SEMINARS Construction Workshop at Turkish Educational Union

July 2014

Model Construction Workshop at METU

July 2014

(wet & dry wall applications with insulation materials)

(modelling sculptures with the combination of timber, gypsum blocks and metal)

Master Class by Tony Hall - Design Control and Guidance (redefining an urban block within context of Ayrancı, Ankara )

Create Your Virtual Reality

(Interactive VR game design workshop in Vinnytsia, Ukraine)

Out of Metrics Talks and Installations

(lectures and discussions with Assemble, Lara Torres, Adbusters, Dunne & Raby in FAD Barcelona)

SOFTWARE

(1 week)

(1 week)

November 2016 (1 day)

July 2017

(2 weeks)

2017 - 2018

(4 sessions)

LANGUAGE

Autodesk Autocad

Google Sketchup

Autodesk Revit

Rhinoceros

Autodesk 3dsMax

Grasshopper

Adobe Photoshop

Unity Game Engine

Adobe Illustrator

Sony Vegas

Turkish (native) English (Advanced, TOEFL:91) Spanish (Intermediate)

Contemporary Architectural Issues May 2018 group project with Carlos Vega & Emre Türkerler location:Barcelona,Spain Olive Artes warehouse program:exhibition supervisor:Celia Vega

The research and the project conducted in the subject was awarded the “honors” accolade which is given in exceptional circumstances

“Women in Architecture” Research and “Paper and Cardboard” Exhibition It has been 100 years since women in the UK, over 30 years old and “of property” were granted the right to vote. Nearly 50 years since the Equal Pay Act was inaugurated. A blink of an eye considering a millennium of discrimination. Yet again, questions and chants arise once more and even more powerfully these days with the arrival of #metoo movement and thus its socio-cultural consequences. Do women have equal professional opportunities as men with equal respect?

This year, once more, the statistics from “Women in Architecture” survey generate alarming data. 1 in every 7 female respondents has experienced sexual harassment in the past year. The pay gap resists and even gets wider with seniority. For women having children, it is still likely to hinder, if not halt, career progression. Status quo is hard to shift and cultural norms find ways of resisting and wiggling around laws.

Through the analysis of Spanish magazine ElCroquis, the presence and the level of influence of women in architectural discourse is questioned and the outcome is presented through a series of mapping studies. The presentation of the outcome data is concluded with an exhibition in the old Olive Artes warehouse.

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Carme Pigem / RCR

2011

2012

2013

2014

2015

2016

Stephanie Mcdonald + Tom Emerson / 6a Architects

2008

Miralles + Tagliabue / EMBT

Annette Gigon + Mike Guyer

Fuensanta Nieto + Enrique Sobejano

Nathalie de Vries / MVRDV

Zaha Hadid

Miralles + Benedetta Tagliabue

Annette Gigon + Mike Guyer

Kazuyo Sejima + Rue Nishizawa

Nathalie de Vries / MVRDV

Kazuyo Sejima

Zaha Hadid

Julia Bolles + Peter Wilson

2000

Carme Pigem / RCR

2007 SANAA

Ellen van Loon + Rem Koolhaas / OMA

1999

Cristina Diaz + Efren Garcia / AMID.CERO.9 Michael Meredith + Hilary Sample / MOS

2006

Jose Morales + Sara de Giles + Juan Gonzales Mariscal MGM Jose Selgas + Lucia Cano

2005 Carme Pigem / RCR

1998

SANAA

1997

Anne Lacaton + Jean Philippe Vassal

2004 Ellen van Loon / OMA

SANAA

Cristina Diaz + Efren Garcia / CERO.9

1996

Nathalie de Vries / MVRDV

2003 Alejandro Zaera + Farshid Moussavi

Helena Njiric + Hruoje Njiric

1995

Jose Selgas + Lucia Cano

SANAA

Matthias Saverbruch + Louisa Hutton

Women Scene WomenininArchitectural Architectural Scene

A Mapping Study through theStudy Analysis of ElCroquis An Infographic Mapping through the Publication Analysis of ElCroquis Publication

2001 2002

2009

2017 2010

2018

99 Single + 12 Collective 65 Men 34 Women 2 Single Women Collective practice editions involving several topics Edition Number

70 76 81/82 88/89 90 91 92 96/97 106/107 119 148 149 Number of female architects

Number of male architects

Woman as Individual Architect Woman in a Collective Practice Multiple Practice Involving Women Two Editions Involving Practice with Woman

The study is based on the number of mentions of women architects in the editions of ElCroquis publications, the infographic reveals how certain names are repeated through the course of contemporary architecture, in which editions they are mentioned and in what way they are mentioned compared to their male counterparts

Collective Practice Editions

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Women in Architectural Scene in Europe Women in Architectural Scene in Europe

AA Mapping Study through theofAnalysis of ElCroquis Publication Mapping Study through the Analysis ElCroquis Publication Number of mentions in regular editions

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Number of mentions in cumulative editions

(Each edition is allocated to a subject Ex. Collective Experiments)

Stephanie MacDonald

Zaha Hadid Nathalie De Vries Benedetta Tagliabue Julia Bolles Farshid Moussavi Sara de Giles Ellen van Loon Lucia Cano

Anne Lacaton Fuensanta Nieto Annette Gigon Louisa Hutton

Madrid

Cristina Diaz Carme Pigem Helena Njiric

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Sevilla

London

Rotterdam MĂźnster

Berlin

Paris Zurich

Zagreb

Barcelona

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Women in Architectural Scene in Spain

A Coruna

Pontevedra

Number of mentions in regular editions

Monica Rivera Débora Domingo Eugènia Santacana Pura García Márquez Eulalia Gonzalez Montse Dominguez Guadalupe Piñera Angela Paredes Victoria Acebo Nuria Ruiz Pilar Díez Eleonora Guidotti Sol Madridejos Maria Fraile Dolores Palacios Beatriz Matos María José Aranguren

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Sevilla

Barcelona

Madrid

Valencia

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Exhibition Layout

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A Coruna

Pontevedra

Monica Rivera Débora Domingo Eugènia Santacana Pura García Márquez Eulalia Gonzalez Montse Dominguez Guadalupe Piñera Angela Paredes Victoria Acebo

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Nuria Ruiz Pilar Díez Eleonora Guidotti Sol Madridejos Maria Fraile Dolores Palacios Beatriz Matos María José Aranguren

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Barcelona

Madrid

The main concept of the exhibition is to maximize the use of two basic materials: paper and cardboard. The paper is utilized in the form of parchment, using the initial measure of an A0 paper (841mm)Valencia to generate a constant parchment of 100 meters in length. The cardboard assembly is recycled from 66 cardboard tubes that are obtained from the rolls of initial printing paper. In this way, the quick assembly of the panels is achieved.

Two cardboard cylinders form the structure of pillars holding the parchment, at a total height of 2.06 meters. An aluminum cylinder connects tow cardboards and at the bottom, an aluminum base holds the whole structure. The 21 cm height of the base helps to achieve a 160 cm height at the exact center of the paper, allowing a perfect visualization from any point of the exhibition The upper cardboard cylinder has an opening of 84 centimeters along its side to allow the parchment to pass through itself.

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Product Design and Exhibition Planning

Cylinder Cardboard Gap for Parchment

Aluminum Connector 2.06 meters 1.60 meters

Cylinder Cardboard

Aluminum Base

0.30 meters

Paper

Cylinder Cardboard

Aluminum Connector

Aluminum Base

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Board Layout Sample

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Project and Materiality May 2018 group project with Carlos Vega & Osca Pita Wu location:indefinite program:multi-purpose pavilion supervisor:Jaume Avellaneda Jordi Pages

The research and the project conducted in the subject was awarded the “excellent� accolade with a total grade of 10 out of 10

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Natural Fiber Rope Pavilion Pavilion design is nowadays a standard material to any exhibition or Biennale because it portrays the immediate results and the quick sketches of the digital advances in architectural production or a conceptual and theoretical statement at the smallest scale. In the scope of the Project and Materiality subject, the instructors gave a variety of lectures, sometimes with guest lecturers, recognizing the prolific debate on pavilions, and at the end invited students to design one that can be transported within a single container and be adjusted to the distinct climates of the 4 major European cities: Barcelona, Naples, Dublin and Copenhagen. The sustainability and transportability issues constitute the major concerns of the study.

Q’eswachaka Bridge Cruzco, Peru symbolic representation of the cyclical way of viewing the universe and life, the material that is given by the Earth degrades and has to be rebuilt each year, this idea and concept would make people think about the fragility of our enivronment, thus it is pertinent to use a similar material for a pavilion related to sustainability and climate change

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Main Properties of the Natural Fiber Rope - bio de-gradable and/or recyclable - one of the strongest and the most durable natural fibers - environmentally friendly: produced with less chemcials than other natural fibers - holds its shape stretching less than other natural fibers - breathable and quick-drying - heat resistant and flame retardant - flexible, easily storable and transportable - tensile structural behaviour - absorbing carbon dioxide efficiently

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study models

Envelat, Catalunya, Spain

drawing by Catalan architect DomĂŠnech i Montaner, reference .22

Material Selection timber

warm weather

- cross ventilation - high rope density in skin

cold weather

- greenhouse effect - low rope density in skin

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etfe

wood

rope

etfe

wood

rope

Manufacturing Details

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Itinerary

Copenhague - Cold/Snowy/Low Light Dublin - Humid/Windy

Barcelona - Temperate/Sunny Napoli - Hot/Sunny

WINTER

SPRING

DECEMBER JANUARY FEBRUARY

NAPLES

Sunshine hours x day: 4.25 Rainfall avg. x month: 97.5mm Max. temperature: 13.5°C Min. temperature: 4.5°C

MARCH

APRIL

DUBLIN

SUMMER MAY

Sunshine hours x day: 5.73 Rainfall avg. x month: 56.6mm Max. temperature: 14.66°C Min. temperature: 9°C

JUNE

JULY

AUTUMN AUGUST

COPENHAGUE

Sunshine hours x day: 8.16 Rainfall avg. x month: 60mm Max. temperature: 20°C Min. temperature: 12.66°C

SEPTEMBER OCTOBER NOVEMBER

BARCELONA

Sunshine hours x day: 6 Rainfall avg. x month: 78mm Max. temperature: 20.66°C Min. temperature: 13°C

Modules of the Pavilion a. (52) wooden pilar with aluminum railings to fix ETFE panels b. (26) central floor beams c. (26) left floor beam with angular plate to fix rope d. (26) right floor beam with angular plate to fix rope e. (26) curved beam with railings to fix ETFE roof f. (286) perpendicular floor beam g. (26) 1” diameter rope with turnbuckles in both endings (20m in length) h. (26) 0.75” diameter rope drums of 240m of rope (dimension: 92cm diameter and 36cm height) i. (52) ETFE inflatable sheets j. (26) inflatable roof k. (26) ropes and connectors between main rope (f.) and curved beams (e.) l. (156) wooden platform (2.6m x 1.2m)

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Transportation with a single conventional container

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Placement on Superkillen Park Copenhague

Cafe/Restaurant-50 m² Toilets - 25 m²

Conference Room - 100 m²

Exhbition Space - 300 m²

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1. Exhibition Area 2. Audiovisual Rooms 3. Outdoor Seating 4. Conference Room 5. Toilets 6. Cafe/Bar

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Urban Project, Ideas and Praxis May 2018 group project with Emre TĂźrkerler location:Barcelona, Spain program:mass housing supervisors:Enric Serra Eulalia Gomez

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Reconstruction Strategies in Glories Area While introducing the grid urban plan and strategy to the city of Barcelona, Ildefons CerdĂ proposed a framework to the Glories area thinking that it would be the new city center in the future. Almost 150 years passed and the area still remains undefined and the identity of the place is not reminiscent of any Barcelonian image if it even has one. In search of a new identity, many competitions are organized and a scheme for an urban park has been finally selected with the votes of the current residents of the neighborhood. The plots remaining empty at the end of the Avinguda Diagonal axis are allocated for possible projects. In the scope of the Urban Project, Ideas and Praxis subject, students are invited to design a mixed-use residential complex, taking into account the precarious history of the area.

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Design Strategy and Morphological Studies

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Design Strategy and Morphological Studies

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GROUND FLOOR PLAN +0.50 from the urban park level

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UPPER FLOOR PLAN

+16.50 from the urban park level

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All Scales of the Project May 2018 individual artwork supervisor:Ferran Grau Valldosera

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“Things I learned in Barcelona from other places” In the scope of All Scales of the Project subject, the students are invited to reinterpret certain works of certain artists, designers, and architects, behaving in the manner that other certain influential artists, designers and architects behaved in their own fields. This “If I was in their shoes” approach constitutes a prolific debate and helps the researchers to better understand the hardships and also techniques of creating a practical, conceptual and theoretical framework in their own field.

Jose Maria Torres Nadal Torres Nadal’s practice and thinking in architecture can be described as contextual at first sight. The sensitive material and color applications with specificity to the rural and local atmosphere give that hint. Of course one might suggest that the issue of the materiality and its relation to locality, climate, precedent architectural typology and with nature can be understood as mainstream contextualism, however looking at his projects, one also cannot deny its beauty. At certain points, he tries to break his architecture’s rather dull uniformity with geometrical articulation and experimentation, and in some cases, he succeeds so. What is interesting is his attempt to introduce programmatic contextuality. This is most apparent in Youth Hostel in Carraleona Beach, Aguilas with its spread program breaking the bulkiness of the project and giving fresh spaces and views to its directly adjacent beach and sea over a rocky hill. Another major beauty his architecture in this building is that it brings forth the reflection of nature to the interior especially in the assembly room. The relation between program and context is at its peak considering this kind of instances in Youth Hostel.

Marti Guixe Marti Guixe’s work is, by all means, is described as critical design. Critical Design uses design fictions which examines particular situations and creates speculative design proposals to challenge assumptions and conceptions about the role of objects play in everyday life. Marti Guixe on many occasions states that he dislikes design as a stylized object and form. Instead of redesigning the existing products in a physical manner, he does it ideologically to alter the ways of thinking and seeing in design.

His work is concentrated around the contemporary experience of objects, situations and exploitations of everyday life rather than confining itself to the past structures of functionality. However, his work seems to be somewhat excluded from the discourse of critical design which has ethical and moral complexity. On the other hand, the fact that his work is based on questioning, visualizing and affecting contemporary human behavior makes it more playful. His emphasis on patterns of consumption is apparent in his food design because he interprets food as a mass-production object. He classifies his own work under several titles such as edible objects, performance, interaction, instruction, new typology and business model.

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Torres Nadal’s Calarreona Youth Hostel is taken as a basis to reflect Andy Warhol and Marti Guixe viewpoints on explaining and perhaps reinterpreting the existing work. The contextual references and especially the material usage in relation with the geometrical plays introduced to the architectural design every now and then is reflected in the Warhol’s graphic style. The acute, medium and moderate differences are achieved to gain insight into the many possibilities of relations between materiality and geometry.

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Marti Guixe’s critical design thinking is reflected through his sketch method to reveal the underlying programmatic activities within Torres Nadal’s work. No matter how we name it, the function of any space is determined through of its practical use, in this case by juvenescence.

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Jacques Hondelatte Jacques Hondelatte is a French architect who was a teacher at School of Architecture and Landscape of Bordeaux. Despite being unknown to the public attention, he was a cult architect to some designers like Jean Nouvel or Rudy Riciotti. He is mostly dissected for his research approach. He designed big projects which were all lost in competitions due to the uncompromising approach to engineering specificities. By his students, he is described as “their guru without dogmas�.

Gilbert Garcin Gilbert Garcin spent most of his life managing a lamp factory in the city of Marseilles in France. At the age of 65, with the influence a workshop he attended organized by Pascal Dolemiux, he stepped into photography. His unique technique of photomontage is designed through leftover materials and his own photos cut and inserted into a predesigned scenery. His fictional character Mr. G., sometimes along with his wife manipulates nature, time and reality in search of new meanings in photography.

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Jacques Hondelatte always designed with skyscrapers in mind and his desire to design vertically is apparent in the extreme linearity of his plans.

The plan of Cotlenko House is drawn and modeled on a recycled cardboard, manipulated in the form of a skyscraper, and then photographed with a sky image behind, a method inherited from Gilbert Garcin to reflect Jacques Hondellate’s unbuilt vision.

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Assemble Assemble are a collective based in London, working across the fields of art, architecture, and design with its multidisciplinary approach. They began working in 2010 and have 18 active members. Their unique practice tries to address the disconnection between the public will and its reflection on the processes by which contemporary spaces are made.

Assemble’s practice is multi-disciplinary and collaborative seeking new ways to actively involve the public in the realization of the works making them both participants and collaborators.

Chamberlain, Powell and Bon Architects Chamberlain Powell and Bon first collaborated on the Golden Lane Estate project. They were participants of the competition and pledged before results that regardless of who won, they would work together on the project. Then they realized Barbican Estate, one of the most influential public housing project ever designed. They are highly influenced by the works of Le Corbusier, however, their sensitivity to the public realm, human experience and their reinterpretation of the brutal modernism with a rather British perspective is what makes Barbican and their other works unique.

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Assemble’s ideology of introducing public will to space is handled with an installation of a playground in front of the Arts Gallery of Barbican. The interactive translucent facade aims to attract visitors to draw whatever they want on its facade. The kids can also enjoy the interior playground.

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Barbican Estate, having its cultural, commercial and educational infrastructure, is in its true meaning, self-sufficient. Assemble’s ideologyis to retain social influence in a space, it is rather humble and wise. Careful about the intervention, know when to touch and when not to. This humble interactive structure does not dominate space, nor its people. It acts as if its been there for years, interacts with user whenever they desire. The translucent facade with its special lighting, reflects the visitor's mark on it, beautifully at night.

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Epilogue Architecture and Art are two domains in very close relation. The relation might have more aspects than one would anticipate though. It is a multi-faceted relation nourished by conceptuality, materiality, scale, state of mind, physicality and etc. However, architecture always is the nourishing side, like the relation of a minor flux to a larger river. Their relation in terms of physicality proposes a substantial base for the discussion. For example, an art object, realized through layers of conceptual processes exhibited in a room seeks perfection, it is a complete entity. However, the interior design of the exhibition room could support its existence or undermine it by its rational, physical and material qualities. The art object could be the representation of two and three-dimensional expressions.

However, it is the architecture that adds the fourth dimension by the prospect of experiencing and traveling through it. Or vice versa, the processes of the art could be used to intensify the expression of an architectural entity, and actually, it is used since we have begun to build.

Although the relationship may seem like an interactive mutual loop that both sides equally participate, Architecture always does the hard work with the help of rationality, and Art seeks perfection by intuitiveness.

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Architecture, Energy and Environment May 2018 individual artwork supervisor:Enric Llorach

A day in the life of a Martian Life on Mars (A Martian Dystopia) is an exercise that comprises the main themes this subject addresses: architecture, energy, and environment. Life on Mars will be circumscribed in a radically different environment, the Planet Mars, in a future hypothesis where the Earth has disappeared, The Great Loss, and Human race has been forced to live on Mars, The Great Migration. The displacement from the Earth to Mars will give birth to a new way of living and a different kind of culture. In this speculation, we will define this new culture as The Culture of Melancholia.

The Culture of Melancholia will be highly insomniac and depressive.

Therefore, the pharmaceutical industry will be strongly involved in the production of all sort of drugs that will help people struggling with melancholia and other psychologic pathologies: Mars will turn out to be a harsh environment in respect of the Earth. However, Mars is beautiful. The smaller size of the planet offers a curved line of the horizon to the viewer while two moons, Phobos and Deimos, look at us with its reddish reflection.

Life on Mars is also a song title by David Bowie, who created the character named Ziggy Stardust for traveling around the Universe through his pop songs that we now invocate in this project.

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- Cannot believe you forgot to charge the backup battery again, it’s been twice this month !

-- Sorry man ! I’m a little bit off lately.

- Yeah, what’s up with you ?

-- It is not going well with Joi lately.

- Whaaat ? That hologram girlfriend of yours ? Man, you should be seeing a shrink, not a hologram ! We screwed up an entire planet, yet somehow the freaking Apple survives.

-- Don’t talk this way man, you know i get lonely.

- That’s because you believe all that crap in that Melancholia Survival Seminars, they are washing your brain telling you that it is a disease and if you work hard, you can be cured.

It is another way to control our so-called degenerate society so that we don’t screw up again.

-- You know it’s true.

- I don’t know, and don’t wanna know either. If we’re gonna do it again, so be it. Look at this dumpster we’re coming every day to find something recyclable. It seems to me that its inevitable as long as we exist.

-- Whatever man, I tell you one thing, and next thing i know, you are the one washing my brain. Lets just get the hell out of this dumpster and get back home. I miss Joi.

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