Enhancing The Survival Landscape
Spaces of Resilience as Social Catalyst
I. Banfi (TU Delft - Architecture and the Built Environment)
Saskia de Wit – Mentor (TU Delft - Landscape Architecture)
A. Pilav – Graduation committee member (TU Delft - Theory, Territories & Transitions)
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Abstract
We are nowadays constantly being confronted with images of conflicts. It is a reality that seems far away from us, until we are not called to confront it closely. Throughout this research, I questioned the role of landscape architects in post-war cities and how we can intervene in a scarred territory. Enhancing the survival landscape investigates the Siege of Mostar (1993-1994) from a morphological point of view. Since the beginning, I questioned the way the conflict has played out through the space, the reactions of citizens to reorganise and reshape the city in order to respond to the basic need of survival. All of this resulted in the creation of spaces of resilience, the starting point of this research. Structuring and visualising these notions, and developing a coherent project that deals with the survival landscape defined by citizens between 1993-1994 are the aim of my graduation research. The project explores urban and landscape transformations, looking at the transitional spaces between military violent destruction and the spatial reactions of the inhabitants.