The urban living room: constructing appropriation via the third space
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The aim of this thesis is to spatially investigate
The Third Space, using life’s transitions within this
fast-moving society to be absorbed in the Urban
streetscape of Gothenburg. Investigating social
dynamics, the concept of The Third Space is
designed to encourage social interactions, foster
creativity, trigger co-creation & to make use of
spaces otherwise left without purpose.
What does a successful environment mean? The
city of Gothenburg seems today to celebrate
industrial and labour oriented progression
with high-rise built office & industrial spaces.
Gothenburg, like many other urban cities,
indeed seems to be in need of a Third Space: To
breathe between labour and domesticity, a space
dedicated for the people.
This thesis problematizes the city formed after
industry. It attempts to propose a design for the
individual as for the group within the urban room,
fostering public agents and new communities &
supporting domestic movements.
The methodology used will investigate the
industrial city that Gothenburg has become, in
contrast to its early history as a merchant city,
where social encounters constantly occurred
next to the river banks.
Another city, also very dependent on its river,
with a merchant background, is Venice. Venetian
Gothic architecture is explored within its urban
expression, a precedent of The Urban Living
Room, the space which the theory of The Third
Space will be tested upon. The belief is that the
urban model of Venice could give room for The
Third Space.
The testing platform is allocated on Gothenburg
riverbank, surrounded by industry & domestic
space. At first glance, the site seem to pose a
lack of public & private gradients, leading to
pedestrian confusion, ending up in neglection.
The Third Space (Soja, 1996) is the transitional gap
between the urban built form & the imagined,
perceived space. It is the connection between
the now & the future. It is a hybrid space where
imagination & creativity occur.