Encouraging Coexistences, Famagusta
Tutors: Socrates Stratis, Christos Papastergio
2012-13
The aim of the studio was to investigate whether the scenario of introducing a European Regional Governance infrastructure in Famagusta after Cyprus Resolution, could operate as a linking program between Greek Cypriots and Turkish Cypriots. Famagusta is a multi-enclaved territory deprived from its Greek Cypriot inhabitants since the Turkish invasion in 1974. One of the most notorious enclaves is the Turkish army controlled Varosha area, which has been fenced off since 1974. The students were invited to examine whether the creation of a thick public watefront organized around the European Regional Governance network could activate third spaces of coexistence among the ethnic communities.
Limit Merge and Transformation
Team: Adamos Adamou , Maria Theodoulou , Stephaniie Cleovoulou , Demetra Patsia
Minor Islands with Island
Team: Androniki Irodotou , Georgia Papasozomenou , Elena Pavlou , Maria Sophokleous
Reconstructive Temporalities: Trojan Horse for Public Space
Team: Timotheos Alexi , Andronikos Kallis , Andrea Spyrou , Stavros Frangogiannopoulos
Our main focus was the reconstruction of the isolated area of Varosha, through strategies and architectures of temporality, with permanent traces for the formation of inbetween space; Reconstructive Temporalities as a Trojan Horse for Public Space. Our study was driven by the analysis of polarities, voids and limits, through the connection of programs and the transmission of their range, but also the reconnection of the large variety of dicontinuities.
The proposal is based on four linear field, which injected the isolated Varosha, corrode its limits and develop during consecutive reconstructive phases. This process requires and promotes sharing between the daily routine, construction works, properties of controversial owners, the administrative program and public space. Therefore, we form urban planning rules of reconstruction which re-arange and re-destribute the public and private space.
The Reconstructive Temporalities, propose a long term urban rehealing process through the conjuction of daily routine and temporality., not only as a strategy of re-inhabitation of Ammochostos, but as a permanant urban condition.
