This is a house; a linger in the wonder of absurd architecture
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Architecture and planning beyond sustainability (MPDSD), MSc
Publicerad
2024
Författare
Hjalmarsson, Per Viktor
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The word Absurd means irrational and can be understood as something that takes us away
from rationality that we in our part of the world use to develop our built environment. In the
thesis I use the Absurd to take an alternative step away from a rationality that today has
connected our buildings to a capitalistic value. I look into the word house as the smallest
architectural building block to build up our society with and find out that a house has an
etymological connection to trousers that cover and protect us. An image that connects
architecture to the need for protection against the forces of nature. But also turns a house into
an absurd object: trousers/clothes.
In this thesis I take you on a journey with the research question: What is an Absurd
architecture? We start with my background, living in the Finnish countryside and the community
Wagon hill and the social sculpture Liikkuva Linna. Then I create a theoretical framework with
thoughts from Albert Camus, Jonna Bornemark and Friedrich Schiller. With the theory we go
through three absurd reference projects to be able to see and undress the rational clothes we
wear today. In the iterative design task I developed on a site in Finland called: The unknown
fairy tales on the countryside and elsewhere, we get to develop an absurd judgment formation
that continues to grow by using the theory on the world and the world on the theory. In the
discussion in the end we come to the conclusion that an Absurd architecture is not a
solution.The absurd seems to open up an interstice in the unknown where we can disconnect
from the economical story that we are saturated in and be able to dream of the impossible
possibilities of our built world. With an Absurd architecture we can undress the gray economical
suit we carry and instead choose to dream in pajamas. In the end we get an Absurd architecture
manifesto and an instruction on how you can house yourself and sew your own pajamas out of
this paper. Thanks for reading
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Absurd, absurd architecture, judgment, judgment formation, house, urban, form drive, stoff drive, ratio, intellectus, not knowing