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Elif Akyüz

, Italy
Architect, researcher, and an individual in perpetual pursuit of understanding for the matters of her interests. She engages with themes as Diaspora and Politics of Space, Identity and Otherness, Antagonism-Agonism, Thresholds and Commoning Practices. After her self-initiated research linked to FAUP (PT), along with work experience at Paredes Pedrosa (ES); she graduated from POLIMI (IT), nominated to YTAA- EU Mies Award with her diploma project. Currently works at studiospazio, based in Italy.

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Threshold Architecture


Architecture of Commons and Passages to Otherness

Threshold Architecture


Architecture of Commons and Passages to Otherness
Exploring the constructive significance of architecture in a place of conflict; by reflecting upon the dynamics between architectural space and social behavior in the aftermath of a Diaspora.
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Diversity in Cyprus incited partition of the island due to conflicts under nationalistic aspirations. Nicosia depicts a dichotomous city with a neglected void at its centre; which transformed its most participatory sector into a No Man’s Land as political antagonism remains to disrupt progress towards acknowledgment of the Other.
The proposal sets aftermath of the territorial conflict, to inhabit this forbidden terrain vague vested with possibilities for a continuous whole, and to engage a divided society; seeking to reconcile socio-cultural bonds through commoning practices, by speculating on the spatial appropriation of social emancipation within architectural construct. The project devises a spatial apparatus of encounter and dialogue, as well as lieu de mémoire; to augment social interactions through shared values of culture and art; emerging thresholds of passages to other(ness), where collective life in commons take shape by having differences nuanced with participation of all.



Nicosia · The Dichotomous City of A Divided Society

Strategy for Shared Urban Commons towards Intervention Approach · Program, Form, Language

Threshold Architecture · Tracing A Neutral Threshold of Encounters and Dialogues

Threshold Architecture · Architecture of Thresholds and Passages to Otherness

Threshold Architecture · Urban Porosity, Common Space and Everyday Life in Commons

Threshold Architecture


Architecture of Commons and Passages to Otherness

Threshold Architecture


Architecture of Commons and Passages to Otherness
Exploring the constructive significance of architecture in a place of conflict; by reflecting upon the dynamics between architectural space and social behavior in the aftermath of a Diaspora.
File under
Type of project
  • Site-specific cases

Diversity in Cyprus incited partition of the island due to conflicts under nationalistic aspirations. Nicosia depicts a dichotomous city with a neglected void at its centre; which transformed its most participatory sector into a No Man’s Land as political antagonism remains to disrupt progress towards acknowledgment of the Other.
The proposal sets aftermath of the territorial conflict, to inhabit this forbidden terrain vague vested with possibilities for a continuous whole, and to engage a divided society; seeking to reconcile socio-cultural bonds through commoning practices, by speculating on the spatial appropriation of social emancipation within architectural construct. The project devises a spatial apparatus of encounter and dialogue, as well as lieu de mémoire; to augment social interactions through shared values of culture and art; emerging thresholds of passages to other(ness), where collective life in commons take shape by having differences nuanced with participation of all.



Nicosia · The Dichotomous City of A Divided Society

Strategy for Shared Urban Commons towards Intervention Approach · Program, Form, Language

Threshold Architecture · Tracing A Neutral Threshold of Encounters and Dialogues

Threshold Architecture · Architecture of Thresholds and Passages to Otherness

Threshold Architecture · Urban Porosity, Common Space and Everyday Life in Commons


Idea by

Elif Akyüz
Italy
Architect, researcher, and an individual in perpetual pursuit of understanding for the matters of her interests. She engages with themes as Diaspora and Politics of Space, Identity and Otherness, Antagonism-Agonism, Thresholds and Commoning Practices. After her self-initiated research linked to FAUP (PT), along with work experience at Paredes Pedrosa (ES); she graduated from POLIMI (IT), nominated to YTAA- EU Mies Award with her diploma project. Currently works at studiospazio, based in Italy.