Attention ongoing care: Maintenance and repair at farsta sports field
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
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Master's Thesis
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Attention! Ongoing Care is a thesis that explores what
care can be in architecture and how caring can be applied
through maintenance and repairs of buildings in a
context determined by limited resources.
In current architectural discourse, there is an increasing
desire to move away from harmful practices, including
demolishing buildings for new construction, non-holistic
extraction, and an emission intensive building industry.
Instead, care, maintenance, and repair, as well as the labour
involved in these activities, have been defined as
key topics. In this thesis, however, actions such as renovation,
transformation, maintenance, and repair are not
considered inherently sustainable. Rather, the thesis
places careful consideration regarding who performs
these acts, what resources are used, how they are carried
out, and what consequences they entail.
The thesis has two points of departure. The first is a
study of current discourse of care. The second point is
a study of everyday sports facilities in Southern Stockholm.
These facilities are high in use and are exposed
to heavy wear and tear, thus making them ideal for an
investigation of care. Further, they are cared for by several
different groups and governed by several interests,
thus actualising questions such as who cares for whom.
These studies, combined with explorative investigations
of the studied sports fields, are presented as Learning
from Farsta Sports Field.
The implementation of the approach is prompted by
the need for care in the day-to-day operation of Farsta
Sports Field, and for future maintenance and repair of
the facilities. A scenario in which the resources and responsibilities
of the caregivers are increased, is developed.
Utilizing existing resources at site, a workshop
and depot to store materials and equipment, is added.
The design considers the use of on-site or reclaimed
resources, functionality for the caregivers, and the ease
of future maintenance. Several interventions in the ice
hockey rink are made based on opportunities offered by
the new workshop and from learnings and design translations
of the discourse.
The thesis concludes with a manifesto for how to apply
an approach of care in architecture and work as a guide
for future maintenance and repair.
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Care, Resources, Maintenance