Frame of frames

Frame of frames

Alexandrescu, M.

De Wit, S.I. (mentor)
Forgaci, C. (mentor)
Kousoulas, S. (mentor)

Architecture and The Built Environment

Landscape architecture

2015-11-03

In this project I take begin from two points: the frame, and a particular site in Bucharest, Romania. The specific site is the territory surrounding the House of the People, whose construction started in 1986. this building is the third largest building on earth, and built as part of a project for a new civic centre, for which the preparations and construction resulted in the destruction of a third of the old urban fabric of the city. this project ended with the revolution in 1989, and left the site a mixture of old city fabric, late communist blocks, and unused, abandoned and overgrown lots. The frame is that which separates. In mthis project, I detach the frame from what it is, and focus instead on what it does. the frame separates and distinguishes something from its surroundings, and thus creates a condition of inclusion/exclusion. the frame permeates all aspects of this project, from theory to urbanism to strategy to landscape to detail to the very process of design and production itself. From these starting points, my investigation was guided by four questions: What are the mechanisms of framing? How can the frame provide a tool for understanding and intervening in a contested landscape immanently? How can a landscape architecture project be framed into a landscape? How can landscape architecture elaborate landscape in both a critical and open ended way?

frame

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Student theses

master thesis

(c) 2015 Alexandrescu, M.