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FASCINATION OF THE UGLINESS

         

How to hack the marshmallow future? Navigating between literary fictions and building literals, the thesis tends to investigate new technological inhabited environments based on the relation between artificial environments and the human body, city and resources, culture and techno-social environments. By infusing fictional narratives and speculative attitude this work aims at developing an experimental vein of architecture as a language of expression.

 

 

       Going through historical anecdotes, fictional description, narrative speculations and case studies, the thesis is investigating contemporary and historical trends that emphasize the interrogation of boundaries in a measure of excess, a measure of possibilities of going beyond. It explores the various aspects of ugliness, as an issue itself to the search of singularity to assert a unique aesthetic, the aesthetic of outrage, uneasiness, and repulsiveness. If the nature of the monster and the horrific has been suspended by fear of the distortion, the unknown, it has however determined and materialized a crucial approach in the representation of things. It defines a new language of expression, an “inbetween”, blurring the boundaries between what exists on our doorstep and what we perceive to be otherworldly and uncertain. In a social, political and cultural context, ugliness provides the opportunity to embody an unlimited territory where variations, turbulences, fantasies and fascinations can be expressed. How to transgress architecturally the stable boundaries of convention? Ugliness has been embrace as a positive as well as a negative term, but it constantly forces to be creative, speculative and critical into the existing system in order to redefine and ascertain an architecture no longer predictable, a language that explores the transgression between the knowable and the unpredictable, the common and the changefulness, the sublime and the grotesque. As Derrida says, “a future without monstrosity could not be a future; it would already be an anticipated, expectable, and programmable tomorrow.”

 

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