Dynamic Space

An Exploration into Strategies for the Uncertainties in Architecture

Master thesis (2024)

Authors

M. Funke Architecture and the Built Environment

Contributors

W.W.L.M. Wilms Floet Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
N.L. Tilanus Teachers of Practice / AE+T - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Eric Crevels Situated Architecture - Architecture and the Built Environment (mentor)
Faculty
Architecture and the Built Environment
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Published Date

05-07-2024

Language

English

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Faculty

Architecture and the Built Environment

Abstract

Tallinn’s largest district Lasnamäe is based on a specific ideology, leaving it after Estonia’s independence from the Soviet Union incapable of adapting to new societal developments. Today, Lasnamäe is still mainly composed of monotonous Soviet-modernist housing slabs and lacks public interior spaces.
Opposing this situation, the building takes occurring uncertainties strategically into account and embraces them to design for unforeseeable functions, needs, actors and changes in society; and intertwines different uses and user groups, acting as an initiator for citizen-driven events and projects.
To achieve this, the design strategy embraces the contrast between indeterminacy and determinacy, creating spaces that can be used freely, combined with structures that act supportive in a structural, functional, spatial and organisational way. The indetermined space leaves things open and understands the building as “pre-used”, being interpretable by its users with the potential to develop over time. The determined parts make the building site-specific, quote Tallinn’s built history and make it a characteristic artefact.