- DIPLOMA I. (ANTI)-______.
- ARCHITECTURE BETWEEN SUBVERSION AND INSTRUMENTALIZATION.
- MASTER THESIS SUPERVISED BY UNIV. PROF. ARCH. DI. K. ASTE ./STUDIO3. 2021.
Global and local flows of capital, resources and data create ephemeral supra- and sub-national territories, overtaking national competencies or rendering them obsolete. As a counter-response, increasingly nationalist, conservative and reactionary tendencies emerge, which instrumentalize architecture as a means of physically manifesting their ideology and organize space and territory.
„Can we create an in-determinate, possibilistic space,
to which no ideology, authority, hierarchy, or structure
is permanently inheren? "
„Can architecture, through its aesthetic, disrupt order
and organization imposed onto space by reactionary,
static structures?
The embassy, commonly referred to as an ex-territorial zone, is, in fact, a highly-territorialized zone, occupying the territory of its host country and physically manifesting the sending state‘s ideology in a compressed architectural form.to which no ideology, authority, hierarchy, or structure
is permanently inheren? "
„Can architecture, through its aesthetic, disrupt order
and organization imposed onto space by reactionary,
static structures?
This thesis‘ building is designed as simultaneously containing the highly-structured, hermetically-sealed and deterministic spaces of an embassy as well as possibilistic, porous public spaces, articulating its most intense moment of conflict - the inter(action)-zone - where the two parts of the building tectonically entwine; prohibiting a single interpretation as seperate parts, creating an aesthetic disruption in the homogeneous urban field of Berlin.
The two building parts are further „irrationally“ cut to reveal smaller tectonic components, oscillating in scale between „building“ and „room“; generating the same disruption not on an urban, but on a spatial-scale, reinforced through an organic multi-material distribution independent of component-geometry and -materiality; geometry, materiality and tectonic are therefore treated as individual, independent and counter-acting qualities of the architectural object, questioning their role in traditional architecture.
The spatial organization of the embassy follows the idea of a linear, sequential trajectory. Geometry and tectonics of the possibilistic, public interaction-space disrupt this linear trajectory, de-contextualizing the perceiver from the transcendental structure of trajectory and embassy, allowing a derivative circulation of space. The space‘s particular, ambiguous aesthetic qualities provoke unforeseen, simultaneous programs, heterogeneous thought, action and subjectivity, creating an un-determined, open territory.
INSTALLATION I. CHAUME SUBLIME.
FESTIVAL DES ARCHITECTURES VIVES. MONTPELLIER, FR. 2025.