Activating Continuity: Interval as a link between past, present and future

“The music is not in the notes, but in the silence between.” Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart<br/><br/>With this short statement, the famous composer Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart aptly captures the essence of the Interval spaces that this thesis was defining. Those are left-over or side-effect spaces, which have many programs but are not programmed. They...

Negotiating Entities: Bazaar in Modernization

Barakholka, one of the largest bazaars in Central Asia, is<br/>in the collision between tradition and modernity. Guided by actor-network theory, the project's research reveals the heterogeneity of activity networks in bazaars and the importance of logistics networks and infrastructure for trade activities. The project is about designing an...

Invisible Cities: COTTONOPOLIS: A critical reflection on the image of sustainability and the promise of production

The project uses architecture to speculate how we might make the invisible metropolis of the cotton industry hidden within the region on Xinjiang, China, visible alongside its negative production externalities and its practice sustainable. This project understands cotton in its current global state of production, consumption and price point can...