Rupturing the terrain vague

Ho-Tong M

Rupturing the terrain vague

Master Thesis

2011

Publisher

University of Cape Town

Department

School of Architecture, Planning and Geomatics

Faculty

Faculty of Engineering and the Built Environment

Abstract

This thesis started with the above statement made by Jean Nouvel in conversation with Jean Baudrillard on the metamorphosis of architecture. This project set out as both a manifestation of the above philosophy, using it as an approach towards making architecture, and as an exploration to test whether architecture can really achieve this - to create a human appreciation of what is, of what is not plainly seen and of existing in space and in a built world which exists with respect to a geological layer applied to all cities across the earth. In this thesis, architecture is explored as a tool for revelation; specifically of existing situations and scenarios in the built world which are overlooked or unappreciated.

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