The permanent expansion of the human system stands in striking contrast to a largely unchanged human scale. While the means of communication, the circulation of goods and transportation have steadily expanded and accelerated in speed over the course of history, the biological human being has hardly changed in the last two hundred years. Anatomy, perception and physical presence inspace have remained essentially constant.
Nevertheless, the politically and economically formulated demand of the present is growth. This growth paradigm manifests itself spatially in ever larger, denser and more complex structures. An interaction arises between the limits of what is possible and a continuous exploitation of what is feasible, often visible in spatially measurable superlatives. Size becomes not only a means, but also a
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Bachelor’s Thesis
PBSA Düsseldorf
156 pages, self-bound, DinA3
200g/sqm
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Thesis supervisor: Prof. Andrea Zanderigo
Project supervisor (design): Prof. Jörg Leeser