Economy, law and architecture make up the wider social space. The city is the result of all three disciplines, and through the city we can learn about the social space we live in. The creation of a new, different city can only happen through a comprehensive change in the way all three disciplines work.
The master thesis explores the possible potentials of a temporary space or scenery, which, as in the case of Potemkin's village, would show what a city could look like or how we could live. At the same time, the work explores the potentials of the metabolism of the city's inherited material in the design of a new city. The work therefore understands the city as a material bank. Through close observation of space, the master thesis sees the overlooked spaces of the city and its material. In this way, it attempts to glimpse the true and unique identity of the city and to build upon it.
The thesis explores the story of Potemkin Village, presenting methods of creating a new city through the metabolic spaces of economy, law and architecture through the themes of temporarily, scenery, mono-materiality, exhibit-ability and servitude found therein. I design a test city in the area in question, which I shape through the above methods. Over the course of twenty years of test-building, these interact with each other to create different influences and unexpected outcomes. Such a process presages the classical process of the self-development of the city.
The new city is the old city transformed, which means that the surrounding material of the city is reassessed and reshaped. In this way, the city retains its material identity, which is only upgraded and adapted to the new needs, the construction of a new legislative and new economic space of the city. Through the established Material Bank, which collects the material of the city, test fields are created in the area in question, on which the new facades and spaces of the city are designed.
The new city is a temporary city, it is the result of experimentation, design and the collaboration of the methods of economics, law and architecture. The city shows how important it is to understand the interplay of all factors (even those we cannot see) in the design of the flesh, and how important it is to take a holistic approach to the renewal of a city or the construction of a new one.
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