Systems in Motion
Modular Architetture for Conflict and Civilian Transition
A. Azzopardi Muscat (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
F.J. Speksnijder – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
U. Knaack – Mentor (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
A. Straub – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Design & Construction Management)
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Abstract
This Graduation Report presents the pre-design research for my architecture
graduation project, which takes the planned German brigade base at Rūdninkai,
Lithuania as a testing ground for rethinking the military base as an adaptable
field network rather than a single fixed camp. The work sits at the intersection of
architectural theory, military basing doctrine and territorial design, and is intended
to prepare a rigorous framework for the design phase of the project.
The research grew out of a long-standing interest in architectural systems that are
deliberately incomplete: structures that anticipate change, negotiation and drift
rather than finality. Encounters with the work of Cedric Price, Archigram, Yona
Friedman, Constant Nieuwenhuys, N. John Habraken and Buckminster Fuller
revealed a body of twentieth-century projects that already grapple with networks,
megastructures, open building and planetary limits. Bringing these visions into
dialogue with contemporary defence infrastructures on NATO’s eastern flank has
raised both disciplinary and ethical questions that shape this project.
This report is the first step in translating that dialogue into a design practice.
It develops a comparative framework based on systemic architecture, using
case studies, thematic dimensions and scalar analysis. Supported by two
complementary modes of research: a top-down framework analysis and a bottom-
up unstructured analysis. These are then condensed into designable actions that
can guide later spatial decisions about how the Rūdninkai base network might
adapt, hide, appear and withdraw over time.