Post-Apocalypse (A): Megacentre, Stockholm, Sweden

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Diploma project - 2021

Professor: Rumi Kubokawa & Or Merom

ABSTRACT It is a self-made story based Sci-fi project, the first part - Megacentre was finished in my first year and the rest - Tesserae was my thesis project, the aim is to reflect and to be sarcastic on some reality dilimmas during the urban development and human activities.

Here are my theoritical arguements: The city is the manifestation of today’s economic system, which is the realm built and ruled by bourgeoisie. Ever since the first industrial revolution, the accumulation of capitals in large cities have been a factor of immigration, while the regional agglomeration of population causes plenty of persistent urban issues, such as housing shortages, however, the solution is not without difficulties for the ruling class. As Engels stated:“In the present social order, the housing question is being solved by taking indirect advantage of demand and supply in the market, a solution that always breeds the same problem, which means that it is no solution at all”, in other words, if the ruling class is not giving up on exploitation on oppressed working class, then the issues will be endless. Also as Teige mentioned, “Here we touch on the very core of the historical role of capitalism, which reveals itself in a most unambiguous way by expanding the productive forces of society, while at the same time the structure of capitalist society prevents the working masses from benefiting from its achievements.” In a way that the root of this evil is in the economic system, unfortunately, it becomes an impartible role in contemporary societal system. Thus, any goal-oriented urban planning should be based on the analysis of the current economic system, however, such a way of planning changes nothing on the principle causes, to a certain extent, those changes have no meaning. Therefore, one way to put an end to the housing that is the elimination of the exploitation class by the ruling class once and for is established upon the old civilization, new society deals with the root cause societal order, in which the urban problems be controlled by monopolies.

With the continuous growth of the peculiarly, some cities start to shrink the decline of their economy and is accompanied by issues such as post-socialist change, demographic suburbanization. Thus urban shrinkage dwownward spiral in which depopulation, stigmatization of urban space, decreasing and falling real-estate prices go hand such a societal system forces humans it is not serving human-beings but while the humans are being too numb system to realize that the money to compares to the life itself, while created to make life easier instead of Therefore, the emergence of the shrinking like a redemption instead of a confrontation, people are given more rights to space, and resources while less affected economic system. Hence, the ultimate second project intends to present way of living without being puppetized else.Both of the projects were designed reality, instead of solving problems or were developed by a team from ETH Zurich and MIT https:// www.3dprintingmedia.network/plate-lattice-architectures/

Therefore, there is only housing shortage, and exploitation of the working for all. As the project civilization, the imagined cause and built a new problems would not the global population, shrink characterized by and population, which deindustrialization, demographic aging, and shrinkage can trigger a depopulation, the decay and decreasing tax revenues, hand in hand. However, humans to adapt to its rule, but ruling over them; numb in dipping in this to the life is pointless the economy was of being the opposite. shrinking city is more confrontation, where arrange their time, affected by the existing ultimate purpose of the a scope of a better puppetized by something designed to question the or giving answers.

Post-Apocalypse (B): Tesserae, Karlskrona, Sweden

KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Diploma project - 2021

Professor: Rumi Kubokawa & Or Merom

Exploded view of the Tesserae

Onground floor, my neighborhoods

Therefore, the emergence of the shrinking city is more like a redemption instead of a confrontation, where people are given more rights to arrange their time, space, and resources while less affected by the existing economic system. Hence, the ultimate purpose of the second project intends to present a scope of a better way of living without being puppetized by something else. Both of the projects were designed to question the reality, instead of solving problems or giving answers.