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N. Sanaan Bensi
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The Qanat System
A Reflection on the Heritage of the Extraction of Hidden Waters
This chapter focuses on a traditional Iranian water infrastructure, the qanat system, a technical solution to the problem of accessing water for irrigation and urbanization that has shaped the landscape and organized the territory. The qanat was the basis for habitation, construc
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An Inhabitable Infrastructure
Rethinking the architecture of the bazaar
The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, it offers a ‘theoretical reading’ of a historically important architectural entity – namely the bazaar – in order to propose a synthetic understanding of its complexity and to explore the multiplicity of forces and regimes involved in the
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Sustainability of underground hydro-technologies
From ancient to modern times and toward the future
An underground aqueduct is usually a canal built in the subsurface to transfer water from a starting point to a distant location. Systems of underground aqueducts have been applied by ancient civilizations to manage different aspects of water supply. This research reviews undergr
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The ambition of Footprint 23 is to provide a critical survey of the architecture of logistics, unfolding the multivalences of its apparatus, dissecting its buildings and spaces, its technologies and labour relations, its historical evolutions as well as its future projections. Ga
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The Revolution of the Roundabout
The Arch as the Spectacle between Function and Deactivation
To every rise and fall of nations, crowds were vital. They could appear in the form of armies defending their motherlands or revolutionaries rewriting the courses of history, but they are also vital to political baiting beloved by every ‘big guy’. Crowds also bring in life to the
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The Architecture of A Non-Narrative Theatre
An Investigation on Spatial Absurdity
Marseille as a port city that is in constant flux carries out a vast array of qualities and experiences that creates a dynamic collection in which heterogenous conventions, orders, and routines interrelate and collide. It is a complex urban network of places and fragments that co
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Urban Improvisation
Research and design about resedents' spontaneous architectural and urban practice in Marseille
Starting from a port, Marseille was born as the result of improvisation and spontaneous architectures rather than urban planning. Same things happened in the architecture scale. architects are not the only doers of architecture. Long after the building has been made the non-archi
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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
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,
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Amplifying trajectories
In the marginal settlements of Mashhad
In Mashhad, one million - a third of the people - live in marginal settlements also known as slums. Migrations from the countryside and Afghanistan to Mashhad, and housing crisis have pushed many to settle in the literal margins of the city. However, their life is everything but
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Reclaiming the landscape
An alternative understanding of the waste cycle in Marseille
As a major transit city on the Mediterranean, Marseille’s urban history and landscape are largely defined by the continuous flows of matter and energy over time. Amongst these interwoven flows, the waste flow is one of the striking focal points. This is not only because the city
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The Banality of Death
Interweaving territories of life and death at the outskirts of Mashhad
The Banality of Death addresses the way the city of Mashhad deals with death. It is an attempt to architecturally translate and expose the tensions that arise between traditional values and the modern transformation of the burial process by the design of three extended rest-stops
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Mazar of the Treasury
A Pilgrimage in the Taklamakan Desert, of Data Centers and Destroyed Heritage Sites
This project embraces the latent tensions and conflicts within the mysterious Taklamakan Desert, where cultural history is being rewritten within the contemporary paradigm of surveillance capitalism. By binding the national demand for data centers with the archaeological excavati
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Rethinking the Infra- Culture space
Bridging, providing, enhancing
Mashhad has been geopolitically an important city in the region and a trade and connection hub to Central and East Asian countries. It is also the second-largest Muslim pilgrimage city after Mecca. It is a global city for which religion shaped the identity and influenced the spat
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In Shadows we Boogie
Light, Shadow and the Repression of Darkness
Light, shadow and shade are at the foundation of our cartesian understanding of 3D space. Where light falls on matter the difference in shading allows us to see this space. However, light also breaks this understanding creating the potential for a phenomenological understanding i
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Office for Digital Oblivion
On Material and Operational Complexities of Contemporary Data Infrastructures
The Office for Digital Oblivion is a project that aims to re-ground discourse on information technologies and the realm of the digital through engagement with its immediate material conditions and operations. It has grown to become a full-fledged hybrid, blurring boundaries of wh
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Office for Digital Oblivion
On Material and Operational Complexities of Contemporary Data Infrastructures
The Office for Digital Oblivion is a project that aims to re-ground discourse on information technologies and the realm of the digital through engagement with its immediate material conditions and operations. It has grown to become a full-fledged hybrid, blurring boundaries of wh
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Living Archive
Transcalar (dis)order of tree debris in the Lake Gatun
This graduation project explores the often-overlooked ecological damage caused by large man-made landscapes. It focuses on creating architecture that critiques, analyzes, and suggests new norms for evolving environments and ecologies. The project blends scientific knowledge with
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Living Archive
Transcalar (dis)order of tree debris in the Lake Gatun
This graduation project explores the often-overlooked ecological damage caused by large man-made landscapes. It focuses on creating architecture that critiques, analyzes, and suggests new norms for evolving environments and ecologies. The project blends scientific knowledge with
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Within the threshold
Connecting elements as complex liminal spaces
Local conditions along the New Silk Road are often largely impacted by the global ones operating in their area—one of such being the Republic of Panama, ever since the build of the Panama Canal. The canal offered a shortcut and connected the World over water, but paradoxically in
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Within the threshold
Connecting elements as complex liminal spaces
Local conditions along the New Silk Road are often largely impacted by the global ones operating in their area—one of such being the Republic of Panama, ever since the build of the Panama Canal. The canal offered a shortcut and connected the World over water, but paradoxically in
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