FRÁGMATA REMÁTON: Empowering through the infrastructural: Hydraulic citizenship and the inhabitants surrounding the Polyfyto reservoir

Water as a catalyst: The opportunities of salvage: Re-imagining abandoned industrial equipment for resource regeneration and community building

A wall is both a barrier and an opportunity. The ancient walls of Thessaloniki stand as a monument to this. Since their establishment in the 4th century their status and significance in the city has only grown. Thessaloniki was a trading town strategically placed on a hill overlooking the bay below. As it grew, so did the walls with them...

Change human circulation in Thessaloniki: Negotiate boundaries with movable architectural designs

The architectural design will guide more travelers and pedestrians into the center of the block differently and interestingly, giving the block a chance to revive the previously hidden and poorly run shops and allow travelers to experience residents' lifestyles more deeply. There is a mechanism of gates to protect the privacy and quality of life...

Deferred Development: Infrastructures of Extraction

This paper looks at the concept of extraction of raw materials, labour and communities, as it applies to the Balochistan province of Pakistan, with an emphasis on the port city of Gwadar. Extraction and its spatial consequences are explored with reference to the situation on the ground in Gwadar. Looking at Gwadar through the lense of statecraft...

Transitional Temporalities: Latent Potentials of the Reterritorialized Extra-Statecrafts

The paper investigates the power-relations that define the urbanization of an Extra-Statecraft zone, process them in a phenomenological view of the indigenous people in the case-study of Gwadar, Pakistan. Criticizing the monotonous manner with which the zone Deterritorializes and diminishes existing practices within a context, to argue for the...

Russian terrain vague: The Soul-state in Architecture

In western modern cities there are these spots that still possesses objects of events that where once before. These objects are alienated objects within the modern city, they can take the observer to a place former to them. The topic of the terrain vague got my interest as the leftover of the industrial, within most industrial areas certain...

Weathering: An alternative way of understanding industrial impact on environment and humans in Yekaterinburg

At present, there are two common ways to understand the impact of industries on the environment. One of them is to abstract statistics from the real industrial pollution scene and base the understanding and decision making on those statistics. The other is to regard the images of industrial landscape as a certain type of aesthetics. Neither of...

Mazar of the Treasury: A Pilgrimage in the Taklamakan Desert, of Data Centers and Destroyed Heritage Sites

This project embraces the latent tensions and conflicts within the mysterious Taklamakan Desert, where cultural history is being rewritten within the contemporary paradigm of surveillance capitalism. By binding the national demand for data centers with the archaeological excavation of destroyed heritage sites, the material and cultural memory of...

The Architectural Intermezzo: How the liminal place changes the architectural approach of a public building and provides a rite of passage.

A project located near to the city of Yekaterinburg in Russia. The design is diving centre in a former talc factory that was in the heart of a industrial town. It builds upon the theory of the liminal transition that also occurs in the sea, where it is called the thermocline. This natural rapid shift in temperature created an in-between state...

Thickness of borders: Walking routes as mediation in an urban space

Borders affect both spatial properties and human behaviors. The way people experience spaces determines the thickness of borders, and the thickness is the space of threshold. This architectural concept is inspired by the architectural elements – door which involves a character of connection and separation. The duality of interface challenges the...

It All Starts With a Wall: To (Re)permeate the Border: Emerging conditions of informal trade at the Iran - Pakistan border

The researched thematic concerns the phenomenon of cross-border smuggling at the mountainous desert region of Balochistan situated in Pakistan. Balochistan is the most precarious province of the country, bordering both with Iran - at the West - and Afghanistan - on the North. The region has been the homeland of the Balochi people, whose...

Landscape in Flux: Precision and error of the natural phenomena affecting the coastline

Natural phenomena are continually changing the coastline and sculpting the land in various ways. By surveying these changes a map can be produced of a landscape in flux. But if the landscape is ever changing, what does it tell us about the precision of flux. The essay also tries to give an answer to the question if there can be error in flux or...