01 THESIS: ARCHITECTURE IN THE CONTESTED STATE NICOSIA INTERNATIONAL AIRPORT,
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A F A B L E ABOUT THE FUTURE SEMESTER 2, YEAR 2, 2020 MASTER University of Melbourne
THESIS STATEMENT This thesis will investigate Cyprus, the complex history of contestation and ethnic division, sovereign identity, and current stasis from the established United Nations Buffer Zone. This thesis will pay attention to the possibility of future development, through the expressiveness of time and space and the unique experience that museum buildings can provide, aiming at encouraging the widely admired visions. Establish a collection of Nicosia’s city fragments, and transmit them into another space, where carries a meaning of a new start. Transformations appear at the beginning of the journey, and finally, an unpredictable image of the museum will emerge in the end. According to Marina Warner, a story is the Esperanto of imagination which has the power to impinge on and change reality, especially in a disruptive, turbulent, and hostile time (Warner, 2018). As a result, this thesis hypothesis architecture as a fable, and takes the concept of narrative architecture as the base. Nicosia city’s past fragments’ compositions become the intervention that comes through the design. The existing and coming art expressions will be superimposed into story contents. The architecture itself will be the exhibit, which will be a stage for visitors and other exhibits. Together they form the narrative, a fable about the future.
Mapping: The Fascinating Journey. A perspective version
