COHABITATION AS A PROJECT FOR POST-ANTHROPOCENIC ARCHITECTURE: STRATEGIZING FOR AN URBAN SYMBIOSIS

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2023-9-8

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Gören, Ece

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As ecological strategies reach an increasingly impendent halting point on one hand, and the Anthropocene is widely recognized in academia on the other, the discipline of architecture is seeking new approaches in light of the planetary-scale disruptions of humankind. Herein, the missing link in environmental discourse begins from the basis of thinking. Within this discourse, the notion of cohabitation emerges as a model to unify the nexus between ecology and architecture, define a new scope of responsibility for architecture, and reframe professional ethics for practices that positively construct, rather than systematically despoil. To construct cohabitation as a project for post-anthropocenic architecture, two propositions are recognized; architecture is not transcendent to, but entirely immanent to nature –therefore neither human, nor design is outside, above or beneath nature– and secondly, cities are habitats, and the city is a modification of nature. In this context, three main design acts are defined for the lexicon of cohabitation; functional symbiosis, capable architecture, and integrated engagement, that vary for potential urban field conditions unfolded as polluted discontinuity, third landscape, and densely urban. The Middle East Technical University (METU) Campus is then explored for the practical implementation of cohabitation via the campus's unique urbannature and potential for coexistence through architecture. The three design acts of cohabitation are used for the selected areas on campus, and responsive design strategies for the framework of post-anthropocenic architecture are proposed for METU. Cohabitation is thusly postulated as a project for the Anthropocene by utilizing architecture as a collective tool of existence.

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Post-Anthropocenic Architecture, Cohabitation, Hybrid Ecology, Interspecies Architecture, Architectural Design Strategies

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/105598

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis