Print Email Facebook Twitter Cuts as Pieces of Architecture Title Cuts as Pieces of Architecture: Training School for Parkour Author Arlauskas, Mindaugas (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment) Contributor Schoonderbeek, M.G.H. (mentor) Rommens, O.R.G. (mentor) Jennen, P.H.M. (mentor) Lee, S. (graduation committee) Degree granting institution Delft University of Technology Programme Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Public Building Date 2017-11-08 Abstract Neglected and abandoned places in the contemporary city are typically understood as negative, problematic issues followed by a tendency of straight-forward architectural solutions. Considering such places as a result of accumulating city processes and conceptualizing them as ”cuts’’ in the urban and architectural tissue opens up an unforeseen potential to construct a design process based on the investigation of phenomena that leads to the awareness of different spatial perception and a more profound understanding of the context. The city centre of Bucharest provides a multitude of mesmerizing examples of such spaces where the theory of motion, play and desires merged with a fascination of parkour as a ‘derivious’ contemporary practise transgressing control and conventional reading of the city. Gradually, these ideas have led to a design of stacked structures with a multitude of height differences, smooth and rough surfaces, and freedom of multiple moving directions suggesting a challenging yet complex environment for learning and practising parkour. Simultaneously, the project manifests as an endless labyrinth of corridors, modest and monumental, warm and cold, reflective and absorbing, transparent, semi-enclosed or even dark spaces all intertwining with each other and inducing a ‘derivious’ spatial exploration. Modular assemblage and possibility for disassembling the project interprets the understanding of flexibility as a reuse and repurpose under different contexts. From a larger perspective, the project becomes a counterargument for the obsession with flatness, rigidity and over-control in the contemporary city and public buildings (places). Subject Bucharestcutsparkourderivemovementspaceassemblagedisassembling To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:49f85ed2-5737-4744-b12e-b4d8e5dbba40 Coordinates 44.42680, 26.10250 Part of collection Student theses Document type master thesis Rights © 2017 Mindaugas Arlauskas Files PDF 4510755_Research_Report.pdf 15.4 MB PDF 4510755_Drawings.pdf 77.74 MB PDF 4510755_Digital_Presentation_P5.pdf 81.07 MB PDF 4510755_Reflection.pdf 69.06 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:49f85ed2-5737-4744-b12e-b4d8e5dbba40/datastream/OBJ3/view