Giving back life to abandoned traditional montenegrian houses. Saving cultural heritage from vanishing by giving them purpose and making them attractive for the coming generations. The purpose is going to be based on local food production and local arts and crafts.

I projektet har jag undersökt postindustriella miljöer på landsbygden, hållbar produktion och offentliga platser. Genom att undersöka och kartlägga bruksorten Stora Vika med dess industriområde försökte jag hitta och föreslå ett nytt sätt att återanvända det förfallna området. Genom att ta tillvara på förfallet på platsen, en naturlig process som möjliggörs av svampars egenskaper, och för att anspela på platsens industriella arv föreslår jag i projektet ett svampcenter kombinerat med ett hus för folket. De offentliga funktionerna som placeras på platsen tillgängliggör och öppnar upp det idag avstängda industriområdet, medan mitt tillägg i en befintlig struktur både erbjuder offentliga rum, producerar mycel som byggnadsmaterial, odlar svamp till restaurangen och möjliggör forskning på svampars möjligheter i en omställning till ett mer hållbart samhället. I projektet har jag undersökt postindustriella områden, modernismens ruiner och hur det är möjligt att återanvända befintliga byggnader. / The project focuses on how to deal with post industrial areas in a rural context, sustainable production and public spaces. By researching and documenting Stora Vika and its post industrial area i tried to find a new way of usage in the decayed place. To take advantage of the decay, which is possible because of fungus, and to connect to the industrial heritage I proposed a centre for fungus, combined with a house for the people. The public functions of the building will make the area itself more available, whilst the existing structure I am working within will serve for public usage as well as produce mycelium as construction material, mushrooms for the restaurant and a laboratory for research on fungus. In this project I have looked into post industrial areas, modern ruins and possibilities of reusing an existing structure.

By shifting from a static, preservation-based approach to one that emphasizes the dynamic process of decay, architecture can be given a second life through a more human-centered perspective. This approach acknowledges the symbiotic relationship between human decay and architectural decay, and can lead to new possibilities for adaptive reuse and revitalization. Architecture and human remains have the potential for new life through the cycle of death and rebirth, so by repurposing abandoned architecture and utilizing human ashes as a sustainable resource, a cemetery can become a vibrant space that celebrates life and the natural world. This approach embraces the cyclical nature of life and the interconnectedness of all things. The cycle of life and death is an inherent part of the human experience, and the built environment is no exception. As buildings and infrastructure age and become obsolete, they are often left to decay and deteriorate. However, this process of decay can be transformed into an opportunity for new life and purpose. A proposed cemetery on the existing ruin that incorporates these principles can become a vibrant space that reflects the cyclical nature of life and provides a sustainable solution for honoring the dead. / Master of Architecture / By moving away from a static focus on preservation and embracing the natural process of decay, architecture can be rejuvenated from a human-centered perspective. This shift recognizes the close connection between human decay and the deterioration of buildings, opening up possibilities for adaptive reuse and revitalization. Both architecture and human remains hold the potential for new life through the cycle of death and rebirth. By repurposing abandoned structures and utilizing sustainable practices, such as recycling materials and embracing eco-friendly approaches, spaces can be transformed into vibrant environments that celebrate life and the natural world. This approach acknowledges the cyclical nature of life and highlights the interconnectedness of all things. The cycle of life and death is a fundamental part of the human experience, and the built environment is no exception. As buildings and infrastructure age and become obsolete, they often fall into disrepair. However, this process of decay presents an opportunity for renewal and finding new purpose. By incorporating these principles, proposals for revitalizing existing spaces can reflect the natural cycle of life while offering sustainable solutions to honor the past and shape the future. This abstract provides a broader perspective on the potential of architecture, emphasizing the transformative power of embracing decay and revitalizing spaces to create a more sustainable and interconnected built environment.

There are contradictory thoughts associated with ruins. Mainly when we hear the word ruin, it reminds us of glorious ancient structures that evoked an aesthetic pleasure and inspired artists and philosophers throughout the history. But it also has a negative feeling, it means to destroy to turn into decay. The former is the way that we feel about ancient ruins but our way of thinking about the ruins of modern times is different. There are different reasons for this duality and this thesis firstly attempts to explore the reasons behind this ambivalent attitude. Secondly to answer why ruins of our own time are considered invaluable, why they deserve our attention, how their qualities can offer different ways of remembrance and challenge the common perception of history and how their existence can arouse the topic of otherness in the urban context and provide a physical space for alternative cultural activities. The design project focuses on an early twentieth century ruin in Baltimore, Maryland. The former theater building had a relatively short period of splendor followed by several alterations and decades of abandonment and decay. Through an architectural intervention, the project aims to understand and appreciate the history and qualities of the ruined theater and integrate these qualities into the atmosphere of the new space, binding the old and the new together and at the same time, retaining the incomplete character of the ruin. / Master of Architecture / Mainly when we hear the word ruin, we think of famous ancient ruin sites like the Colosseum, Acropolis or Angkor Wat. It reminds us of glorious ancient structures that evoked an aesthetic pleasure and inspired artists. But the word ruin is also associated with negative feelings. It means to disintegrate, to reduce to a state of decay, to collapse. The way we feel about the ruins of our own time is mostly associated with the latter. Modern ruins are mostly seen as unpleasant. Places that provide a space for undesirable activities and are linked to crime and, thus, threatening the safety of the residents in that area. As a result of this attitude, they become an ignored and marginalized part of the cities. Although ruins have some of the mentioned negative possibilities, they also contain positive qualities and potentials that I explore in this thesis. There are different reasons for these ambivalent feelings about ancient and modern ruins and this thesis studies the reasons behind it. This thesis provides answers to questions of why ruins of our own time are considered invaluable, why they deserve our attention and how their existence can arouse the topic of otherness in the urban context and provide a physical space for alternative cultural activities. The design project focuses on an early twentieth century ruin in Baltimore, Maryland. The former theater building had a relatively short period of splendor followed by several alterations and decades of abandonment and decay. Through an architectural intervention, the project aims to understand and appreciate the history and qualities of the ruined theater and integrate these qualities into the atmosphere of the new space, binding the old and the new together and at the same time, retaining the incomplete character of the ruin.

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This dissertation argues that the symbolic force of deindustrial Rust Belt decline is expressed through patterns of rhetorical invention, what I call ruination rhetorics. Ruination, I argue, works to construct divergent orientations toward space and time in representations of the Rust Belt. I trace these orientations as a way of charting the contours of how we understand domestic urban decay in our contemporary political and economic climate. This project argues that ruination's inventive force hints at a number of thematics including: ruination as urban waste; ruination as a claim to forms of nostalgia and authenticity; ruination as a linkage between temporal configurations of the past and the present; and ruination as a narrative form enabling what I call a "melancholic" rhetorical style. In all of these instances, ruination supports differentiated orientations toward time and space, creating temporal and geographical connections and boundaries through rhetorical manipulations. In this way, the times and spaces of and for industrial ruination shift, and in so doing, their discursive manifestations elucidate the diversity and instability of spatio-temporal structures. Conceptually, I argue that ruination shapes an understanding of space and time as fluid concepts, rather than stagnant or pre-determined categories. And by unpacking the ways that ruination traffics in representations of Rust Belt geographies and citizens, we discover an increasingly complex discursive field out of which meaningful relationships to decay and renewal might be forged. In this way, ruination does not weave a cohesive narrative of what the Rust Belt is, where the Rust Belt is, or who does or does not lay claim to its political realities and challenges. Rather, its divergent and contradictory modes of rhetorical invention suggest ruination expresses the incoherencies and compatibilities constitutive of an everyday life lived in the ebbs and flows of a material space that is always-already a site of ongoing decay and renewal.

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[pt] Métodos da teoria de martingais tem sido amplamente utilizados em matemática nos últimos decênios. Mais recentemente, eles também vêm sendo usados em matemática atuarial. Nesta tese discutimos um exemplo de aplicação desta metodologia na demonstração do teorema clássico de Cramér-Lundberg para o problema da ruína. / [en] In the last decades martingale theory tools have been extensively in mathematical finance. More recently, they have also been used in actuarial mathematics. In this thesis we illustrate this methodology in the proof of the classical Lundberg-Crámer theorem for the ruin problem.

Ruinkvarteret Tyresö gymnasium har gjort sitt som funktion av en skola. Byggnaden har gjort sitt för att stå pall för människan och naturen. Nu har den börjat förfalla. Fuktskador, otäta fönster och allmänt slitage har gjort att Tyresö kommun har besätmt sig för att renovera eller bygga om skolan till bostäder. Ett nytt bostadskvarter i ett naturlandskap där bebygelsen ligger som öar utan att förhålla sig till varandra med endast naturen som sammanbinder dem. Där det byggda är symbol för människas exelllence är det förfallna en symbol för människans misslyckande. En blandning av de båda symboliker skapar en ödmjuk bebyggelse som visar på tiden och människan och naturens sammanrbete. Inte på dess kamp att bemästra den andre. Under en visst stadie ser det som håller på att byggas och det som håller på att förfalla likadant ut. När endast den bärande konstruktionen står på platsen är det enda som skiljer dem åt hurvida naturen tagits bort eller tagit över. Under stidier av ofärdighet och förfall är det upp till betraktaren att skapa sig en bild av hur det har sett eller kommer se ut. En bild format av personens egna minnenoch förväntningar. Detta har fascinerat mig otroligt och fått vara styrande i projektet. Likaså att jag vill skapa ett kvarter med mervärde och identitet. Där det gamla och nya möts. / The Ruin Neighborhood Tyresö Gymnasium has done its purpose as a function of a school. The building has done its part to stand stool for man and nature. Now it has begun to decay. Moisture damage, leaky windows and general wear and tear has resulted in that Tyresö has decided to renovate or rebuild the school to housing. A new residential area in a natural landscape where the neigborhoods are situated like islands without relation to each other and with only the nature that link them together. Where the built is the symbol of man's exelllence is the decay a symbol of man's failure. A mixture of the two symbologies creates a lowly buildings showing the time and man and natures collaboration. Not the struggle to master the other. During a certain stage sees what keeps indictment to bebuilt and what keeps indictment that overdue the same. When only the supporting structure stands on the site, theo nly thing that separates them is if the nature is removed or taking over. During stages of incompleteness and decay, it is up to the viewer to create a picture of what it has been or will become. An image based on the viewers own memories and expectations. This has fascinated me and forced the project forward. Likewise, I want to create a block with a greater value and identity. Where the old and the new meet.