Name: Markus Köhler
Track: Architecture
Studio: Explore Lab
Year: MSc 3/4 / 2025
Type: Graduation Project
Tutor: Jorge Mejía Hernández, Elise van Dooren, Rico Heykant
Description:
The Thesis explores the phenomenon of incomplete concrete skeletons in the south of Italy and the perennial tension of order and freedom in Architecture. The projection introduces a systematic approach to transform incomplete structures in the south of Italy into latent villas, addressing their wasteful obsolescence in the context of regional rural abandonment. The project is bound to existing ideals and resources available in the south, but exceeds these by the projection of a clear, central intervention that structures the perimeter. Through imposing this absolute order, existing potentials are realized, maintaining the structures inherent openness as latent tolerance. Emphasis lays on applicability to a number of different skeletons, feasibility of construction with regional resources and the appeal to local housing ideals.