The master's thesis Brick by Brick tackles the theme of the urban fringe by looking at the outskirts of Ljubljana. It takes the Ljubljana Ring Road, its civilizational edge, as the border between the city and its periphery. The ring road is the most extensive, the most expensive and the longest project in the territory of the municipality of Ljubljana and is comprised of 29 kilometres of asphalt and surrounded by complex water supply and regulation systems, nodes of the electrical network, gardens and parking lots for different vehicle typologies.
The design proposal is inspired by the existing building practices, mostly by the simple objects found on patches of gardens, the garden sheds. It takes the building practices, embodied by these simple objects of less than 20 square meters, and applies them to a megashed, a transitory home that’s continuously being built and functions as a home for people in transit , an educational workshop for amateur builders and as casual accommodation for commuters. The design of the building follows the principles of: I. circular use of materials – due to the diversity of the building materials it allows the use of smaller quantities of redundant building materials from building sites across Ljubljana, II. progressive growth – the functional space grows with the addition of new building parts, III. continuous learning – the building process is being repeated, each new part of the building allows a new generation of apprentices to follow the process from the foundations to the roof, IV. tax optimization – work becomes the currency with which the people in transit pay for their stay to avoid monetary transactions as much as possible.
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