THE JUNKSPACE MONUMENT, An ode to monsters and parking lots

An empowering network of urban interventions in Rotterdam

Master thesis (2023)

Authors

E.L.M. Fabre Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

A.S. Alkan Theory, Territories & Transitions - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Georg Vrachliotis History, Form & Aesthetics - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
E.W.M. Hehenkamp Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (supervisor 1)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
Copyright: © 2023 Elodie Fabre
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Published Date

24-07-2023

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Facing the neo-liberalisation of the city, "the furtive monument" is a path across the city, combining programs of the body, the mind and the politics, in order to reach a state of empowerment. Based on a situationist drift, architectural interventions transform the way the city of Rotterdam is experienced, not based on profit but based on programmatic activations. If the city is a generic cadaver, the project has the ambition to revive its soul from its carcass, extracting its qualities, disrupting the systems in place and re-assembling its components. The city, seen as programmatic intensities, states that architecture doesn’t have to be built.