Rob Goacher DS4 2018-19
AN INFRASTRUCTURE FOR SPATIAL EMANCIPATION
01. Karposh: Addition city
Including Karposh: Addition city booklet, Installation booklet, Palimpsest drawing, Derive book and Site catalogue, Karposh: Addition city poster, Flip-books, Agenda driven additions, speculative section, Makers made elevation Narrative and makers overlays,
02. Nascent
Including Nascent booklet, Nascent, Larger development drawings, Birth of a frame and Location analysis, Adaptable habitation drawing, Technical scrapbook,
Inhabiting Karposh, a suburb of North Macedonia’s capital Skopje is hard, housing is unaffordable, young people are stuck living with parents; lacking space and developers exploit public space to ensure maximum profitability. In summary, the current uncontrolled neo-liberal attitude to housing has failed residents. In response, new typologies of change and addition have emerged, from enclosure of balconies to exoskeletons and roof extensions. We can speculate narratives and futures of these additions and the informal network of makers who create them; the ‘maker’s’ economy; expansion of this economy could allow community cooperation and the development of more radical additions. Revisiting the Yugoslavian model of enterprise allocated housing and community provision, I’ve formed a new typology of community controlled living, playing on the addition typologies evident and speculated in Karposh. This community endeavour takes over public space and constructs child forms of demarcating masts, creating metabolist-style artificial ground.
Residents of ‘parent’ apartment blocks are allocated volumes within new child forms dependent on their needs. They purchase partially prefabricated capsules to infill the volumes, hung from masts, which are all made by the established ‘maker’s’ economy. The capsules 03. Regime change contain interchangeable panels and are in a constant state of change Including Regime change booklet, and flux, dependent on people’s needs. Relationships of the new typology, Daskal Kamche Street Apartments Reborn (narrative drawing) Child communities grow from piers, with self-made connections. Piers Daskal Kamche Street Apartments Reborn (narrative video) also act as service routes, connecting service infrastructure within the child forms providing a resilient community service system.
04. Karposh’s tomorrow
The new typology challenges common family relationships, retaining benefits of multi-generational and community living whilst establishing subordinate, interlinked but independent, new households, providing Karposh with capacity and resilience to take advantage of future opportunities from potential EU membership and to be insulated from potential adversities.
Including Karposh’s Tomorrow booklet, 20 years, part of Karposh 20 years, part of Karposh(video) Family Family (video) The Carpenter and the Sewer This new model of housing could be explored across several Suzana’s Capsule situations internationally, expanding ideas of community-controlled, Outward expression and opportunity multi-generational and adaptable architecture.