CASE STUDIES ON THE IMPACT OF TECHNOLOGIES IN ARCHITECTURE AND URBAN FABRIC Master’s thesis research
Case study on borders
The reason why I started this research was my admiration of the music and a great desire to go beyond the negative connotation of this cultural movement. I perceived it as an explorer. I was surprised to descover that it all began in Detroit, USA, as it was a hub for electronics production, but at the same time place of extreme segregation and marginalization of Black people. Berlin
The advent of my research coincided with the pandemic, and I landed on an article describing the importance of this music to the Berliners and how it resulted in a kiosk for streaming. search of individuality and expresion through music
Berlin, Germany
Belfast, Northern Ireland
good-bad
good-good
Factors that led to the techno culture outburst in Berlin
1. decadence (for example, segregation led to extreme and spatial separation) 2. existing material border - the Berlin wall that generated a powerful desire for runaway 3. opposition of ideologies where one of them is perceived as good and the other as bad 4. critical group of individuals in transition that want to construct their own ideology marginalized communities in search of identity
References
Nightlife, in popular culture, brings to mind leisure, debauchery, narcissism, excess. But when you talk to the people most involved in the scene, that is not at all how they describe it. They talk about transcendence, healing. They speak of the soul. - a quote from a magazine article
An island is any object lost in an endless extension of a uniform element. As such, the island is isolated. The island is by definition remote, separated, intimately alternative. The island is elsewhere. San Rocco Magazine: Islands
Characteristics of Tempelhof airport area
Cocepts appropriated by Gilles Deleuze”s Desert Islands
open-closed
fortress wall
continental island - a fragment, a remnant in the city’s urban fabric; could be explored and understood through its connection to the environment and history
illusional access
experimentations with models
O. M. Ungers’s “Berlin as Green Archipelago” the project consisted of approximately sixty isolated “urban islands” floating within the ocean of open spaces surrounded by the Berlin Wall
oceanic island - an autonomic system whose outer borders relate equally to the outer world in a defensive manner 5
