Thesis Book 4

“The city will be open.Come on in, go anywhere!

Live where you will! (...) The city will have special places. Many of these

will be incomprehensible to many.”

(Michael Sorkin)

Andi Schmied, 2012, London

IV.Votanikos room

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“Stop beautifying and decorating the city!”

(Peter Noever)

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Votanikos diarytendencies of function

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Animations of tendenciesAbandoned

catalogueAbandoned catalogue

Drawings of people

Site conditions

Model of transormed Votanikos

Small transformations processesanimations

Overall transformation processanimation

Site beforehammering projected

Site aftertransformations

Original buildingsdescribed interventions

Matrix II.

Light I.

Light II.

Transformed buildingsDescribed “functions”

The Post Mallimage

The Post Mall in functiona field for encounters

Matrix I.

Human kit catalogue

Human kit catalogue

Toll kit

Site material

Votanikos diary moviea route through the site

180

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Votanikos diarytendencies of function

Site mapSite material

Abandoned catalogue

Votanikos diary movie a route through the site

Animations of tendencies

Tool kitOriginal buildingsdescribed interventions

Site conditionsHuman kit catalogue

Site beforeHammering projected

Site aftertransformations

Small transformations processesanimations

Model of transformed Votanikos

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Votanikos diarytendencies of function

Site mapSite material

Animations of tendencies

Abandoned catalogue

Drawings of people

Matrix I.

Human kit catalogue

Votanikos diary movie a route through the site

Site mapSite material

Abandoned catalogue

Matrix I.

Human kit catalogue

Tool kit

Dog

Site material

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Votanikos diary movie a route through the site

Matrix I.

Site conditions

186

Tool kitOriginal buildingsdescribed interventions

Site conditions

Site beforeHammering projected

Site aftertransformations

Smal

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pro

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esan

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Model of transormed Votanikos

Small transformations processesanimations

Overall transformation processanimation

190

Matrix II.

Model of transormed Votanikos

Overall transformation process animation

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The Post Mallimage

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A field for encountersFor exchanges of ideas

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images from external sources

p. 108 http://netbuzz.bloguez.com/netbuzz/2732523/chernobyl-disaster

p. 108 - 109 http://spad1.wordpress.com/2010/01/14/eyewit-ness-the-bombing-of-dresden-14-february-1945/

The rest of the images in this document are my own.

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“Planning and chance almost seem to be the same thing.”

(Robert Smithson)

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Andi Schmied, 2012, London

IV.Votanikos room