The Entropy Equator

Students : Sakellariou Marilou, Tzakou Anthi
Supervisor: Dallas Aleksis, Panigiris Kostis
University of Thessaly_ Department of Architecture Engineering
Date of Presentation: 08/07/2011

In times of crisis, the unavoidable disruption that occurs between people or communities and the system results in the disconnection of the former from the urban network and the emergence of a new need for immediate relocation. Based on the above, we attempt to set the parameters of an experiment where a series of abandoned industrial spaces, located in the suburbs, accumulate infrastructure in order to tend to the possibility of a temporary accommodation of transitive users. These entropic islands, unspecified in space and time, conditioned by varying rates of decay, are reintroduced into a network in the context of a dispersed city. This city challenges the usual experience of travelling by car. An experience that is formed through a fragmented spatial view and perception of abrupt shifts in geographic continuance is replaced with a potentially infinite transposition that is combined with the possibility of a temporary stop or shelter. For this purpose, transitional surfaces are produced by a process of destroying and re-categorizing selected items that already exist in the particular space. These new surfaces can be used both as interconnecting platforms and as voluntary reclusion shelters. In essence, we are trying to build a new environment for socializing that redefines the concept of infrastructure, enabling the user to connect with more conceptual and personal networks, and envelop work as a spontaneous event, an unformatted action that momentarily crosses paths with transposition.