Re-Domesticating Mass Housing: An Investigation in Re-Domesticating Modernist Housing Estates in New Belgrade

The project proposes a rethinking of what it means to live in a high-density housing estate, wanting to establish how Functionalist Residential Architecture can make its residents feel "At Home". To this end, I propose understanding the differentiation between the concepts of "House" and "Home". Reflecting on the writings of Heidegger, Merleau...

The stories behind the stones: How the intangible aspects of architectural heritage can serve as a guiding theme within the design process

This graduation study examined in an exploratory way how the ‘intangible’ aspects of architectural [built] heritage could be made ‘tangible’ by means of an innovative and strategic collaborative or ‘counter-mapping’-based methodology, in order to give the socio-cultural or intangible aspects of architectural heritage a more prominent place in...

Continuity and Change: Dwelling in the In-Between

Uncovering Threshold Spaces

"Uncovering Thresold Spaces" is about uncovering and designing a sunken architecture landscape. The intervention ties different layers of the built environment, human movement and the surrounding to regenerate the existing metro station. As well as, providing a place where students, commuters, or people from around wanting a break, can come.<br/...

Arising From the Ruin: Turning an abandoned industrial mega-structure into a village in Belgrade, Serbia.

How to deal with the abundance of abandoned mega-structures in a city and where do these structures fit in modern society? <br/><br/>Rather than repelling or demolishing, this project deals with the structure of the abandoned factory of Belgrade by redefining its relationship to the human scale. The use of the age-old approach of roman and...

Inhabiting the Uninhabitable: Post-nuclear Cofrentes, 2056: The reality we might live to see

In a future scenario where nuclear energy has been the globally accepted solution to solve the energy crisis, an accident happening in the year 2056 obliterates any hopes for humanity's future on the surface of the Earth. <br/>This graduation project narrates an evolutionary exploration of unconventional ways of living in a post-apocalyptic...

Cultivating Communality: A collective garden for the informal settlement of Kaluđerica

The informal settlement of Kaluđerica (RS) is characterised by a lack of public space, yet, with an abundance of 'residual spaces'. Spaces that are left vacant due to the irregular development of the settlement. The project entails a proposal for a collective garden for one of these residual spaces: to bring people together over the possibility...

Thresholds of Homecoming: An appropriable house for Romani Settlement Deponija

Deponija Settlement is a Romani settlement that gradually grew on an old landfill site along the Danube and near the city center of Belgrade, Serbia. Large developments on this plot of land would be expensive because of the required extensive soil preparations. This creates the opportunity for the more than hundred families to stay on this plot...

To Revive & To Remember: Re-imagine the use of Bezistan Passage, Belgrade, Serbia

The location of my graduation project takes place within the complex neighborhoods of downtown Belgrade, the capital city of Serbia. It sits at the beginning of Trg Nikole Pasica street, and lies at the intersection of two monumental squares (Nikola Pasic Square and Terazije Square and Terrace). It is an urban passage called the Bezistan (means...

Bajloni Stage, fluidity as a means of engagement

E(ye)scape: Designing with memory/+fire, a Living Memorial

I have always been fascinated by fire. By no means does this mean that I am not afraid of it. As a child, growing up in the Athenian, suburban interface, but also in the Greek, Mediterranean, summery, rural landscape, fire was a familiar event to me. Even so, though, that doesn’t make it something less shocking, scary, and unwanted. Every time,...

The ongoing monument: An outdoor theatre for Belgrade

Notes on Edge Conditions: a project for a bath on a river dock in Belgrade

The project for a public bath in Belgrade offers a chance to reflect on the current transformations of the city. On the one hand, the rivers. The role that the Sava and the Danube played in the life of the city changed from borders to infrastructural arteries in the past century, turning the shores of the city into industrial areas. Connected by...

The Urban Collage Poem: Belgrade Sugar Factory Renovation

The purpose of this project is trying to find a way of bring the lost space in urban context back to the city as an active area.

Yopougon Youth Center for coupé-décalé and social cohesion

In the wake of 2020, 10 years after the last civil war, Côte d’Ivoire is still recovering from years of conflict and healing from societal wounds which sometimes still feel very fresh. Conventional sectors of activities are developing fast, but the national government is still struggling to involve young actor, who feel misunderstood remain...