The Elephant In-Between

The Elephant In-Between

Popescu, Iulia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

Rommens, O.R.G. (mentor)
Geerts, F. (graduation committee)
Koskamp, G. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Borders and Territories

2023-06-26

Within an area that presents edges with very different characteristics, surveilled and controlled to various extents, the proposal will focus on designing an intervention that will exercise control over the user through the qualities and through the use of the designed space.
In addition, because the site presents the zone of the lagoon where an environmental regeneration was attempted, my proposal will make use of the new “nature” that has been designed.
Considering these characteristics, as a function of the building I propose a sanatorium, a place fully controlled, where the human is contained, and removed from his usual environment.
The graduation proposal project focuses mostly on understanding the extent of social control that a designed space can exercise on the user. In addition, it serves as a commentary on the current society that we live in, always watched and monitored, congested in chaotic cities that keep growing haphazardly to accommodate more and more inhabitants

Port
city
Liminal space
control
brothel

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Student theses

master thesis

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