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...

Stitches: Blending landscape fabric through the golden threads of spatial identity in San Riku coastline, Otsuchi, Iwate, Japan

Disaster prevention and coastal protection of Otsuchi have affected the livelihood and the daily pattern of lifestyle of the regular Otsuchian. This work represents the alternative to a typical top down prefectural level demand for a line based infrastructural solution to disaster prevention and creates the required importance of livelihood,...

Midcity's Integrated Institute of Culinary Arts (MIICA)

How can a single intervention trigger an attractive production neighborhood to facilitate economic growth in a decaying industrial area? Meet Galewood, Chicago. An area in between downtown The Loop and the outskirts of the city. From the earliest days of Chicago in the 1830’s, the area has shown economic growth. Up until mid-twentieth century,...

Edible Garden

This thesis is related to following topics: the specific place and metropolis; the interstitial space and genius loci and the experience of landscape and enclosed garden. As the most traditional way that one express his intention and build up a connection with his living environment, can garden still bring us a sense of identification and...

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Zachte krimp preventie door herstructurering van een bestaande bedrijfsterrein van een regionale verzorgingskern.

Street life: Revitalizing new Asian developments

Street life deals with contemporary issues in Asian new developments. It critiques the new towns and proposes a transformation to increase their livability and reconnect them to the local context - both physical and cultural.

Gateway to Tallinn. An architectural representation of genius loci