The Elephant In-Between
I. Popescu (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
ORG Rommens – Mentor (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
F Geerts – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
Gilbert Koskamp – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Architectural Technology)
More Info
expand_more
Other than for strictly personal use, it is not permitted to download, forward or distribute the text or part of it, without the consent of the author(s) and/or copyright holder(s), unless the work is under an open content license such as Creative Commons.
Abstract
Within an area that presents edges with very different characteristics, surveilled and controlled to various extents, the proposal will focus on designing an intervention that will exercise control over the user through the qualities and through the use of the designed space.
In addition, because the site presents the zone of the lagoon where an environmental regeneration was attempted, my proposal will make use of the new “nature” that has been designed.
Considering these characteristics, as a function of the building I propose a sanatorium, a place fully controlled, where the human is contained, and removed from his usual environment.
The graduation proposal project focuses mostly on understanding the extent of social control that a designed space can exercise on the user. In addition, it serves as a commentary on the current society that we live in, always watched and monitored, congested in chaotic cities that keep growing haphazardly to accommodate more and more inhabitants