Thesis 100dpi

ARCHITECTURE
The Architecture itself is the materialization of this aforementioned
Journey. The project therefore serves as a vessel that allows for the
fundamental principles of the refugee crisis that we have identified,
and the potentialities therein to be made manifest. The current
constraints and dangers of this Journey are themselves inverted to
become the driving rules by which the Architecture abides. At the crux
of this is the underlying concept of MOVEMENT.
“Free unimpeded movement to be at the basis of everything”
Distilled from these ideologies is therefore an architecture of movement,
a border-less place, creating a complete paradigm shift in order
to explore and provoke new ideas in the approach to what is seen as
a refugee “crisis”. Mankind is undoubtedly rhapsodic when it comes to
the formation of areas of anything “free”. Free Wifi zones have become
the newest constructs of ‘social’ space, and entire nations have risen
on the back of the principal of “tax free”. It is therefore only logical that
we take the next step in this evolution and create what is truly the first
border free space.
So at this point it is only fair to ask, “Well what exactly is this Architecture
of Movement?” In all earnest, the answer simply enough does
not actually exist. The proposed Architecture of the project is nothing
more than the container in which this continual flux is brought to life.
Much like the bones in our bodies we propose the structure itself, a
rigid element in space, but within it a plethora of vital elements are
free to move servicing this temporal space in any configuration that
is needed. Therefore the architecture itself can never really be fully
imagined or even captured in an image, as an image serves as a mere
fragment of frozen time, much the same as the result one gets when
photographing a wave in the ocean.
The architecture is therefore that of event, rather than that of object
itself, a suiting fit as it is able to alter its physical configuration in
anticipation of probable and possible patterns of use. The architecture
pre-empts the needs of society adjust itself parametrically with algorithmic
like precession, learning and adapting much like a computer
program in order to understand its social order.
139 LIFE IN MOTION
The architecture itself is a tool of provocation, allowing for one to
rethink the form of the solution to the refugee crisis on a global level
while also examining what role architectural discourse can play in this.
This provocation allows at the same time for all current policies and
regulations currently blanketing the subject of refugees, to be challenged
and tested.