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Architectural survival techniques

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While the city center is hijacked by the rich, the periphery (city and buildings) is adding more and more layers

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Housing problem: Booming real estate market; an average salary of $91$ a month; one needs to earn earning at least $500 a month to get a mortgage

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Improvised housing expansions

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Tbilisi’s citizens must be creative.

Appropriating private/ housing space through the expansions of their facade, blowing up their windows into living units dimensions.

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