Encountering The Voidness

Master thesis (2021)

Authors

S. Zhen Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

M.G.H. Schoonderbeek Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
G. Koskamp Design of Constrution - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
F. Geerts Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
N. Sanaan Bensi Teachers of Practice / A - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

07-07-2021

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Urban voids are the indispensable configurations within the urban environment. They should be recognized as distinct spatial entities within the cities and also in the sense of human culture, as the holder of the memory and historical layering of the life of the city. The project mainly focuses on the current urban conditions happening in Mashhad, where the old city fabric is being dramatically removed due to its low commercial land value. A void records the palimpsest of the land and manifests a contradictory entity with its simultaneously emptiness and richness.

The intervention is a place - where - the vacancy of junctions paradoxically constructs the complexity and contradiction within the absence of Mashhad. It renders the complexity of voidness in the sense of phenomenally encountering the memories and scenarios, and literally processing to be a void. Intricacy of the reality transgresses the borders in these emptinesses and generates the moment for encountering on different time scales, resonating the palimpsestuous understanding of the territory.