Fragile State(s): Lines, Walls and the Possibility of Interrupting Processes of Privatisation

Fragile State(s): Lines, Walls and the Possibility of Interrupting Processes of Privatisation is an exploration into architecture as a practice of negotiation and disruption. Situated in the uncertain context of Brexit, the project is a critique of how architecture, a profession that often claims to mediate and resolve socio-political and...

Waiting: Imagining the future of military architecture of the Atlantic Wall in a dynamic landscape of Wadden Sea.

The Atlantic Wall bunker ruins stand on the coast, abandoned and falling apart. There is a kind of beauty in this scene. <br/><br/>Contradiction between the rough concrete volumes defeated by asoft, ephemeral and seemingly delicate mass of water was the beginning of the research. Analysing the biggest territorial scale -the North Sea- the notion...

Food from the empire: The new productive territory of post brexit UK

Among the several events that have shaped UK’s present , the British colonial empire could be one of the most significant ones. With the North Sea as Britains new passage to the world the British thalassocracy created one of the biggest colonial empires that lasted over three centuries. At its colonial peak, the imperial empire had occupied 24%...

Taking Back Control

This project traces the role the North Sea has played in the history of the United Kingdom, with a particular focus on territorial control. In a post-Brexit scenario where supply chains between the island and the continent are interrupted, the contiguous zone just twelve nautical miles from the coast of the UK provides an ideal economic grey...

Città Fabbrica: from the city of production to the productive city

With the first Five Year Plan of 1928 Stalin initiated a period of massive industrialisation of remote zones of Russia. This lead to the creation of several Monotowns, newly built industrial settlements based on one economical source or industry. <br/>The project takes as a study case the town of Togliatti, the largest built in Soviet Union and...

Past to Present to Past: Settling in the Unsettle-able

Past to Present to Past is an architectural investigation responding to the growing need to address sea level rise in the built environment. The two sites of focus are Leysdown-on-Sea, UK and Red Sands Fort in the Thames Estuary.

Everything Remains Transformed

The European climate and energy goals towards 2050 ask for drastic systematic<br/>changes in the current European energy system to increase the share of<br/>renewable energies and to reduce carbon emissions – from 1990 to 2050 by 90%.<br/>The project Everything Remains Transformed intends to highlight how farreaching the transformative process...

From emergency landscapes to ecologies of co-habitation: Agricultural production, the normality in a state of exception

The geopolitical instability in Syria has led to an increased disturbance of the environmental, economic and social situation in its adjacent country Lebanon. A comprehensive approach is put forward, for safeguarding the environment and to address the economic and social disruptions the country is facing. This allows the phenomenon and...

Sharing Fluid Ground: A Landscape of Co-existence Building upon the Unstable “New Land” Along the Coast of Stavanger

With the sustained impacts of climate change, and the corresponding effects of post-glacial rebounding, a persistent sea level change continues to affect the countries within the North Sea region. These changes could indicate new threats or opportunities to human society. According to the synthesised datas of historical and current mean sea...

A new integrated N-S (north-south) system: Renaturing the lower Thames Estuary

Estuarine area, as a transition area between land and sea, is the most dynamic and complicated area, due to its unique location and diverse ecosystem, but yet it is also the most vulnerable and fragile area, as it may be plagued with flooding risk, erosion, subsidence and etc. As the diagram show below, estuary area is influenced by three...