The in-between space: urban thresholds as an activation strategy of the Buffer Zone in Cyprus
The establishment of the green line in Cyprus, followed by the invasion as well as the installment of Turkish troops on the island, led to the communal separation into two separate zones. By establishing two impenetrable lines along their borders, Architecture materializes the separation of the urba...
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| Tipo de recurso: | tesis de maestría |
| Fecha de publicación: | 2022 |
| País: | España |
| Institución: | Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya (UPC) |
| Repositorio: | UPCommons. Portal del coneixement obert de la UPC |
| Idioma: | inglés |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:upcommons.upc.edu:2117/371201 |
| Acceso en línea: | https://hdl.handle.net/2117/371201 |
| Access Level: | acceso abierto |
| Palabra clave: | City planning -- Cyprus -- Nicosia City walls -- Cyprus -- Nicosia Urban renewal -- Cyprus -- Nicosia Public spaces -- Cyprus -- Nicosia In-between space threshold urban walls walls buffer zone no man's land Urbanisme -- Xipre -- Nicòsia Muralles -- Xipre -- Nicòsia Rehabilitació urbana -- Xipre -- Nicòsia Espais públics -- Xipre -- Nicòsia |
| Sumario: | The establishment of the green line in Cyprus, followed by the invasion as well as the installment of Turkish troops on the island, led to the communal separation into two separate zones. By establishing two impenetrable lines along their borders, Architecture materializes the separation of the urban zones and the deactivation of the in-between space. This thesis describes the process of understanding the urban condition through the experimentation of its opposites. Considering dialectic phenomena such as power-obsolescence, open-closed, interior- exterior, public-private, and collective-individual, the threshold becomes the main subject of research. The threshold is found as the space capable enough to link differentiated phenomena and it is applied as a concept from the urban scale to the architectural, to regulate the relationships between different entities. The project aims to investigate the value of the in-between space while displaying an alternative reality of the urban organization based on the particularities of the site. The main subject of study is the relationship between programmatic sequences and it is developed based on the act of delimitation and materialization. The methodology used for the development of the thesis is a continuous alternation between project and research. The latter is supported by case studies. |
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