Essays about: "modern ruin"

Showing result 1 - 5 of 7 essays containing the words modern ruin.

  1. 1. Post-Traumatic Urbanism

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Dalia Diary; [2023]
    Keywords : Urban planning; City development; post-traumatic urbanism; ruin; rebuild;

    Abstract : Terrorism, conflict, and natural disasters. How can architecture respond to a world at odds with itself?On a daily basis we see tragic news about cities around the world that are undergoing trauma. READ MORE

  3. 2. Nästa station: Igelbäckens naturreservat : gestaltning av en övergiven tunnelbanestation till en naturreservatsentré

    University essay from SLU/Dept. of Landscape Architecture, Planning and Management (from 130101)

    Author : Erik Eckersten; [2022]
    Keywords : gestaltning; landskapsarkitektur; naturreservatsentré; modern ruin; tillgång till natur; tunnelbanestation; rekreation; urban natur;

    Abstract : Projektet är ett gestaltningsförslag som handlar om Kymlinge övergivna tunnelbanestation som ligger på blå linjens Akallagren i norra Stockholm. Tunnelbanestationen byggdes och förbereddes på 1970-talet för en planerad men inte byggd stadsdel, och öppnades sedan ald- rig. READ MORE

  4. 3. A monument to the flaws

    University essay from Konstfack/Textil

    Author : Moa Larsdotter Persson; [2019]
    Keywords : Disintegration; Deconstructed; Screen Print; Distressing; Walls; Dystopia; Post humanism; Façade; Ruin Romanticism; Illusion; Monument;

    Abstract : My work is a tribute to the disintegration of built environments, and the chaos and disturbance that it brings into the idea of what a city should look like. An ode to the ruins that are witnesses to destructive social and economic systems and that tell the stories of the life that once inhabited them. READ MORE

  5. 4. Great Northern Warehouse

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : James Britton; [2015]
    Keywords : Nottingham; Library; Modern Ruin; Warehouse;

    Abstract : This thesis project is a study of a complex of historic, railway-goods warehouses in Nottingham (UK) that were internally destroyed by a fire two decades ago. The site has has become an erstwhile symbol of the city, a stark reminder of both a past age of prosperity and the century of post-industrial decline that ultimately followed. READ MORE

  6. 5. Water world : An artificial shape of meaning

    University essay from KTH/Arkitektur

    Author : Julia Eriksson; [2015]
    Keywords : Mountain; water reservoir; materialism; posthumanism; water fall;

    Abstract : Water World is a water reservoir in the shape of a mountain, with a steel grid body and a shell of shot concrete. It is situated in the national city park Lill-Jansskogen in Stockholm and the emergence of this project is the disrepair of an existing reservoir. Humans, like all things alive, are dependent on water. READ MORE