Studio Work
Fall 2018
Ayse Şentürer (ITU)
Future is an ambiguous step. What is architecture’s role in lackness of absolute space as and in lackness of absolute time? Can we solutionize it by mirroring architecture and human onto each other. All ‘individuals’ strive now for custom-made materials and new generation service. We want to live in special places that were sewed for us. Why not sew it ourselves by our new prin- ters? We can puzzle our houses in and out. We will seed the te- chnology into cells and bottle it up in polykatoikia1 blocks.
The idea of how far we can get in imagining future and find a pleasant place, takes root from the contemporary New Yorker cari- caturist Victorias Roberto’s scene on “If you go deep enough into the jungle, there is always a bar scene.” Have a joyful ride!
Polykatoikia is an apartment style that was born in Athens in 1920s creating a city which was eaten by polykatoikia ‘monster’ but at the same time where the citizen were both the producer and the user.
Disclosing Athens and the block settlements un- folds the informal domination of polykatoikias and how they have been the key element in regulating the life of Athenians. In order to cope with it, I took the methodology of recycling the polykato- ikias from the Athens Biennale in order to mine it myself
Disclosing Future within the recent technological advancements and social media interaction have been merged with the discourse of utopia and dystopia. Reconfiguring the dialogue between humans and the surrounding in different intervals marks the insufficient voids in Athens housing system.
Taking media theorist Douglas Rushkoff’s future perspective into account, rather than “predicting the future,” adaptive polykatoikia future is seen as a sense of making and creating.
The idea of how far we can get in imagining future and find a pleasant place takes root from the New Yorker caricaturist Victorias Roberto’s scene on “If you go deep enough into the jungle, there is always a bar scene.” Have a joyful ride.