Ali Navid
ARCS 5106 Graduate Studio aims at the design of a culturally significant built work set within a prominent urban site or natural landscape. Th e project addresses critical architectural questions – the cultural and social significance of space-making; the uses of technology; the relevance of existing site conditions or the creation of new ones; and the practical and philosophical discourses on the contemporary built environment – to shape an thoughtful and well-designed resolution of program and tectonic expression.
This map is a graphic laboratory for speculations on spatial experience and recollection of memories. It highlight a journey through personal memories and experiences. In this laboratory Cabo Espichel exist in a temporarily state of recollection. There is always missing pieces of experiences or irrelevant fragments of memories. Perhaps this is a momentarily autonomous laboratory where it is possible to experience past, present and space.