UNDOCUMENTED

UNDOCUMENTED: From Liminal Politics to Intimate Spaces

Determann, Pepijn (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

van de Pas, R.R.J. (mentor)
van der Meel, H.L. (mentor)
Milinović, S. (mentor)
Romein, A. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2021-07-09

The protagonist of this work is the rightless, displaced person - a population of individuals in transition, hidden like a shadow in the contemporary city. Departing from the active oppression of this considerable group from the fabric of the city and the ways in which architecture contributes to enclosing or dividing populations, this work proposes a reconsideration of the role of the architect in civil society. After all, what is the current role of the architect when we talk about the socio-political tensions in the context of a marginalised existence in the contemporary city? The work proposes critical, nonmodernist and empathetic ways of thinking about the communication between the individuals at stake and their spaces of transition. The design suggests how a situated, highly visible and appropriable building in the city of Amsterdam could contribute to give meaning to the ongoing debate on Dutch immigration policy and the position of a marginalised population in society.

refugees
asylum seekers
Immigration
Squats
Co-Living
displacement
Liminality
human right
Intimacy
we are here
undocumented immigrants
home

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Student theses

master thesis

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