Acts of Discontinuity

Students: Francesco Barrone

Title: Acts of Discontinuity

Semester: 2016 Autumn

Teachers: prof. dr. ir. Tom Avermaete, dr. ir. Klaske Havik, Jorge Mejia Hernandez

This project is represented in our chair's contribution to the TU Delft Archiprix Preselection 2018. 

The polycentric growth of Agadir led to a strongly fragmented urban environment, denoted by the presence of big portions of terrain vague inside the city. The intervention proposes a shift in the perception of the emptiness inside the city, aiming to turn an undesired and neglected area into a resource of public space for the citizens. The project embraces critically the spatial phenomenology of the fragmented city and consists in three open-ended architectures that share the same compositive principles, yet having strongly different characters. Each intervention is associated with a fundamental act taken toward the territory: Displacement, Invasion, Unification, and with an elementary geometrical form that contains in itself the nature of the act: Line, Point, Surface. the essence of each space, rather than being consequence of a program, lies in this dichotomy act/form.

More information about this project can be found here.