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INDEX AND GLOSSARY

Archaeology: The study of excavating the ground for locating artifacts of the past.

Artificial Excavation: The concept was first coined by Peter Eisenman for his presentation entry for the competition of IBA Social Housing in Berlin, 1980. In this thesis, the concept of the excavation is related to archaeological layers with artificial ground determined by man-made surfaces such as roads etc.

Archive:

Artifacts:

Architecture-Object:

Campo Marzio:

Cowgate:

Diagrams: A record/ document of registering the thesis through a series of text, diagrams, literature study, drawings, and appendices. The archive is visualised to be sealed in a box and buried in the ground for the future city to discover as an artifact.

The historical memories of the previous city that are buried under Edinburgh’s ground that are traced, and superimposed onto the present and the future city.

The new architectures (FABB) designed along the Cowgate as visualised as objects of the future which are disjunct from the concept of functionality and appear as a skeleton of framework. The function of these objects are to be determined by the future city.

The district of Rome which is studied as a fictional site by Giovanni B. Piranesi. Piranesi in his study traces, and superimposes the Classicism of Ancient Rome as fragments of ruins onto the modern city where the site oscillates between the two.

The street running east to west parallel to the High Street in the city of Edinburgh. The street is studied through history in order to excavate traces of its memories onto the present city.

The technique of diagramming as associated with Gilles Deleuze and Peter Eisenman are employed for the project, where the diagrams help in generating new forms by inscribing historical traces onto the city through each period.

Design Project - 1:

Design Project - 2: The archive of Semester - 1 where the city and new urban methodologies were studied in order to generate a new visualisation (See Appendix I).

The archive of Semester - 2 where the urban design methodologies were studied further and a ‘New Caledonian Forest’ was introduced into the project through a network of agenices (FABB) (See Appendix I). Fictional Reality:

Fragmented Ruin:

Flodden Wall:

Geddes Gardens:

George IV Bridge:

Grassmarket:

Holyrood Park:

House of Leaves:

Juxtaposition:

King’s Wall:

Labyrinth:

Marcel Duchamp:

Mnemonic device:

Mystic Pad: The site in reality is grafted with an alien body generating an entirely new outcome which can be defined as a fictional reality. For the thesis, the alien body refers to the traces of historical maps onto the city which generates an entirely new study of the city as a fiction in reality.

As Piranesi, the fragmented ruin in the thesis is defined by the few of the artifacts that are excavated among the many which are buried under the ground and are visualised to be in a state of ruin overrun by the vegetal world.

A fragmented ruin (artifact) of the 15th century Edinburgh that is excavated in the project.

Patrick Geddes, a Scottish biologist and townplanner designed these Gardens in the Old Town of Edinburgh which can be found in the locality of Grassmarket.

An artifact of 19th century Edinburgh. Also, a location for a new architectural agency to be introduced.

Location for a new architectural agency to be introduced.

The last remnant of the Ancient Caledonian Forest located in the heart of Edinburgh. A vegetal world of indigenous plant species and a home to many animals and wildlife.

The intial title for the thesis based off the book with the similar title by Mark Z. Danielewski.

The act of placing two things close together to compare the differences and similarities between the two. The concept is utilised to compare the city’s past with the present by superimposing them rather than placing them close to one another.

The artifact of the city belonging to the 11th century.

A maze or a place constructed of intricate alleys and pathways. The city of Edinburgh is seen as a labyrinth of several cities buried on top of one another as Piranesi and Sigmund Freud sees Rome as a maze of several cities of Rome buried over one another.

A avant-garde artist. His work of The Green Box is referenced to incorporate the concept of an archive in the thesis.

A memory device of recording time and history. In the thesis, the concept of memory is studied through the vegetal world where plants are seen as a witness of recording memory through history.

The concept of double-sided Mystic Writing Pad employed by Sigmund Freud where the layers underneath the outermost layer are traced and inscribed as memories. The concept is used to study the city through a similar technique.

INDEX AND GLOSSARY

Networks of Agencies:

New Vegetal World:

Old Town:

Series of Enzymatic Territories: A series of architectural and urban interventions at strategic locations along the Cowgate to revisualise the city through the concept of Artifcial Excavation.

The concept of reintroducing the lost ancient forest through traces and superimposition in a fragmented manner across Cowgate as a New Vegetal World. This world is studied by Smout Allen’s concept and Luce Irigaray and Michael Marder’s Through Vegetal Being

The Old Town of Edinburgh.

The thesis visualises potential excavation sites in the TLML scale which are found due to the enzyme of artifacts that are located under Edinburgh’s ground.

A PALIMPSEST OF MEMORY: HISTORICAL STUDY OF THE CITY OF EDINBURGH 4000 B.C.

500 A.D.

1450 A.D.

1742 A.D.

1787 A.D.

1817 A.D. THE CITY OF EDINBURGH (TLML) GRASSMARKET South Bridge:

Superimposition:

Urban Artificial Stratum: An artifact of 18th century Edinburgh and also a site for an architectural agency.

The concept of overlaying one material on top of another where the material underneath is still visible over the new layer.

The superficial urban layer of pavements, roads, and city that supresses the natural sub-soil buried underneath this artificial stratum. In thesis, the city as visualised in 2050 is an artificial urban stratum of the future which is excavated.

GEORGE IV BRIDGE SOUTH BRIDGE