Thesis 100dpi

COLLECTIVE ACTIVITIES
The central ‘Nave’ of the structure is home to all Collective Activities. Here
the refugees are sensually bombarded with any and all possible constructs.
The space of Collective Activities functions much like a giant sandbox, allowing
the former Homo Faber to unleash their ludic potential. The spaces and
elements are free to be shaped and reformed by all those moving through,
thus the architecture becomes a projection of the society itself, ever shifting
and changing its composition. The movement through the area of Collective
Activities is slow, where displacement of both people and objects becomes
a form of activity, the entire interior landscape in a state of constant flux.
Rapid movement though is still accommodated and can be achieved
through the use of high speed mag-Lev trains which are set to replace the
existing rail network. The multileveled and ever shifting layout of this space
results in an autonomy of networks, where the architecture itself predicts
and in turn adapts itself to possible patterns of movement.
Collective activities are reflections of social constructs within the structure
and reflect physically how this new way of living is made manifest. The
activities which can take place are innumerable but could include some of
those listed below.
Bowling, ski practice, karting, eating and drinking, dancing, swimming,
skating, music concerts, interactive studying, finger painting, restoration of
vintage cars...
Such activities can also take place in spatial constructs outside our scope of
current imagination, such as The Grotto of Kaleidoscopes, a dark cavernous
space filled with memories and historically fundamental points of humanities
past or constructs far beyond our imagination.
147 LIFE IN MOTION
SERVICING ACTIVITIES
Located within the galleries flanking the structure, the zones of Servicing
Activities are fundamental in inverting the current problems refugees face
within the existing paradigm of the refugee crisis. Access to shelter, food,
sanitation, counseling and any other manner of Service Activity can be
found here. The area of Servicing Activities works much the same as the
rest of the architecture fluctuating and adapting its functions based on the
predicted need of the refugees at any given point and time. The presence
of the servicing activities is also fundamental in the conversion of the social
construct of the user of the space from that of a utilitarian society instead
allowing them to become a ludic society, where the social consciousness
of every user is liberated through their ludic potential. In order to achieve
this the zone of Servicing Activities automates all non productive work, thus
increasing productivity and reducing scarcity, eliminating the unceasing
struggle for existence that refugees have been fighting up until this point.
The micro structures therefore work together as basics units of a network
which each form a link in the chain. The overall macro structure allows this
great freedom to the micro structures.