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Chen, Dongyan (author)This project experiments in representing the spatial complexity of a research area and reintroduces it to an adjacent site in the language of architecture. A heavy industrial district for ship building and maintenance is centered on and taken as a field with its dense configuration of artifacts (cranes, workshops, cargoes) and invisible force...master thesis 2024
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Ingielewicz, Katarzyna (author)Today, Istanbul’s urban spatial structure has been dominated by three phenomena: informal housing, uncoordinated and uncontrolled urban intensification, and mass housing projects. It stands out particularly in the case of Kayabaşı neighborhood located on Istanbul’s Western periphery. Rigid, orthogonal layout of each group of blocks gives a dose...master thesis 2023
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Tong, Mathew (author)According to the Oxford Learner’s Dictionaries, the notion of “space” can be read in several ways, of what is the five general understandings of it would be: outside earth’s atmosphere, empty area, period, freedom, and lastly, where things exist/move. With the speed, amount of information, and technology we are currently facing in the 21st...master thesis 2023
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Druschke, Luis (author)This project embarks on an alternative reality that is imagined to rethink our relationship with nature. If the representation of the climate crisis heavily relies on data that intrinsically does not entail a visual agency, it is also a crisis of representation. This project seeks to transcend the abstraction and complexity of the discourse...master thesis 2023
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Osmankulova, Janel (author)This project is grounded in notions of fragmentation, camouflaging, invisibility, idiosyncracies, and oddities in infrastructures. <br/><br/>Understanding infrastructures as one of a number and reproducible elsewhere in the territory gives way to understanding my project as an addition to the distributed, dispersed, and fragmented...master thesis 2022
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Al Khamissi, Saja (author)The Earth has been used as a shelter in ancient times as one of humankind’s first inhabitation methods, as these natural cavities are known for their safety and climate stability. Today, beneath the modern cities, under the buildings and streets, a complex network of spaces, pipes, tunnels, and pillars hold the cities together while keeping them...master thesis 2022
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Crotti, Francesca (author)This thesis is to be regarded as a reflection on the interplay between a recent ongoing personal experience, the accidents and encounters that it entailed, and underlying theoretical concerns.<br/><br/>I have been living in Tbilisi for the past few months.<br/>During this time, I focused my attention on a case of architectural abandonment in the...master thesis 2022
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- Dehing, Luuk (author) master thesis 2022
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LEE, Jacky (author)The city of Trieste has been filled with ageing urban fabrics and abandoned industrial buildings due to obsolescence. Witnessing the decay of the city excusably provoked the pessimism of the locals as it made them conscious of the fact that their life and pride are degrading. The negative labels associated with decay inevitably seized the...master thesis 2022
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- Vencevičius, Benas (author) master thesis 2022
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van der Gugten, Niek (author)This project focuses on the hinterland of Trieste, the Classic Karst plateau. It tries to rethink landscape maintenance approaches, seeking alternatives to aforestation that appreciate the three millennia long landscape identity of the karst as consisting of semi-natural dry grasslands. With advanced technological developments traditional...master thesis 2022
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Kopiarová, Dominika (author)A fascination with obsolescence as an inherent landscape condition lies at the core of a project that thematically focuses on fundamental scientific inquiry in reference to the Big Science. It stems from the preconceived tensions between the notions of progress versus obsolescence and progress versus accident. <br/><br/>The former is a result of...master thesis 2022
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Fetter Brücker Liserre, Marina (author)The research and project evolved from the analysis of nomadic patterns of mobile groups original to the Almaty region of Kazakhstan prior to Soviet rule, which was then led to an investigation of nomadic metaphysics. The conclusion of this analysis suggests that aspects of mobility such as ephemerality and informality – long deemed as...master thesis 2022
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- Usevičiūté, Viktorija (author) master thesis 2022
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Qu, Hechen (author)A transferable and replicable architectural mode in the context of Trieste, based on the site of Ex Fiera of Trieste, helps to recreate the local urban memory.master thesis 2022
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Gorchaj, Rina (author)The cul-de-sac is an omnipresent urban morphology encompassing an array of very different situations, whose specificity however is overshadowed by its functional definition. The research confronts the functional conception and challenges its appropriateness. It is firstly established that there is no one definition of a cul-de-sac, but rather...master thesis 2021
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KAYA, CEREN (author)The research investigated the image of Beirut as a ruin through the pictorial artworks of Beiruti artists who have been through these conflict times starting from the 20th century, through a person who has no experience of the city. It concluded that Beirut's ruin image was created by its artist society in order to remind people what happened...master thesis 2021
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Grosveld, Marcus (author)The conflictual past of Beirut is being erased by the company of Solidere, which has a strong will to modernise, through a highly destructive reconstruction, in an effort to heal the city. With this project, a new approach is taken on, in which an old concrete structure, riddled with bullet holes, part of the great variety of dilapidated and...master thesis 2021
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Brouwer, Menno (author)Our contemporary world is filled with sensors, from weather stations to infrasound facilities and seismic monitoring stations. These sensors constitute a specific spatial and architectural reality in the Critical Zone and introduce the idea of the territory as a sensing device. The Critical Zone is a thin layer of several hundred meters thick...master thesis 2021
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Hemingway, Katrina (author)Beirut is a catastrophically polluted place; the foul garbage piling up on the streets, high level of air pollution and rapid privatisation of green spaces are all causes of such an ill-treated palimpsest city which has quickly declined into this condition. Today Beirut relies heavily on its port, which has been conceived from the sea like its...master thesis 2021