Living Where The Immaterial Matters; (Unit 2, year 4th and 5th)

This paper will focus on the questions raised through the work of Unit 2: Living Where the Immaterial Matters, a research based studio of the 4th and 5th years of the professional degree at the University of Nicosia. Our unit‟s core investigation is to provoke a debate on the issue of immaterial matter and its potential role in Innovative Architecture. The unit examines the relationship of the immaterial to the build environment. We investigate the intangible qualities of architecture, immaterial matters that can create new typologies targeting to innovative living solutions. It is expected from the students, in this level of their studies, to tackle with the issue of the immateriality as an indispensible part of the material matter and the tectonics. The notion of the boundary as a physical and an immaterial entity forms the vehicle through which investigations begin and might end. We see Boundaries as Thresholds between contrasting conditions, grey zones of crossing limits, edges of different entities. The Methodology of the unit is of equal importance with the research question. Our approach is empirical. Through the act of trial and error we approach architecture as an on-going process. The Unit‟s thematic is INNOVATIVE LIVING + EVENT. The everyday permanent programme of living such as social housing, urban (re) development is generated through an insertion of an event. The „Living‟ + „Event‟ is been tested as a catalyst in order to investigate the main questions of the unit: immaterial matter and its potential role in innovative architecture

Living Where the Immaterial Matters

This paper will focus on the questions raised through the work of Unit 2: Living Where the Immaterial Matters, a research based studio of the 4th and 5th years of the professional degree at the University of Nicosia. Our unit's core investigation is to provoke a debate on the issue of immaterial matter and its potential role in Innovative Architecture. The unit examines the relationship of the immaterial to the build environment.We investigate the intangible qualities of architecture, immaterial matters that can create new typologies targeting to innovative living solutions. It is expected from the students, in this level of their studies, to tackle with the issue of the immateriality as an indispensible part of the material matter and the tectonics.The notion of the boundary as a physical and an immaterial entity forms the vehicle through which investigations begin and might end. We see Boundaries as Thresholds between contrasting conditions, grey zones of crossing limits, edges of different entities.The Methodology of the unit is of equal importance with the research question. Our approach is empirical. Through the act of trial and error we approach architecture as an on-going process.The Unit's thematic is INNOVATIVE LIVING + EVENT. The everyday permanent programme of living such as social housing, urban (re) development is generated through an insertion of an event. The 'Living' + 'Event' is been tested as a catalyst in order to investigate the main questions of the unit: immaterial matter and its potential role in innovative architecture

Soft Networks and Emergent Topographies

Research focuses on mapping of liminal space along the Buffer Zone of Nicosia and its emerging urban identity that is revealed through documentation of inhabitation patterns over time. The process of seeing activities from the ground, through mapping and collage, expose the complex and often-invisible layers of information that exist. These processes of re-reading extend and enrich our interaction with the specific conditions of the site; the slow and seemingly insignificant and ‘unseen’ organic evolution of the site is acknowledged as a strong part of its identity. Based on premise that transformation of space provokes public action, the investigation is concerned with the search for emerging and shifting topographies. Research establishes mechanisms for discovery spaces of transformation these exist at the level of landscape, and very particular conditions of forgotten edges and points of contact with the urban environment

UNIVERSITY of Universities [UOU]: Redefining the basis of International Teaching of Architecture

When thinking about teaching and knowledge exchange, is it possible to gain in quality by using an international online teaching? That is the aim of a pedagogic project born out from a lockdown affecting students and teachers of Architecture at home. From the combination of confinement and teaching, a brand-new initiative has been designed focusing on higher education - UNIVERSITY of Universities. It is an international teaching project developed by teachers of six European universities, starting the academic year 2020-2021