Made available in DSpace on 2016-03-15T19:23:00Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Ulisses Alves Maciel Ribeiro.pdf: 5371981 bytes, checksum: d10caf7a73f84fb4270964aa54701e06 (MD5) Previous issue date: 2015-01-28 / Coordenação de Aperfeiçoamento de Pessoal de Nível Superior / Contemporary society can be characterized, among other aspects, by its transmutation, speed and excess, being deconstructed and reconstructed all the time. It is also in this scenario that many concepts or conceptual notions from several areas are challenged. In Architecture but not limited to it attempts to theorize about the attributes related to the idea of places are recurrent as well as its potential implications for human relations. According to the French anthropologist Marc Augé, places can be defined as identitarian, relational and historical: if one of these attributes is weakened, non-places are configured. In order to encompass the nature of this phenomenon and to understand how the versatility of the contemporary world collaborates to the production and reproduction of non-places, is resorted here, an inter, trans and multidisciplinary approach: Geography, Anthropology, History, Psychology, Architecture and Cinema are summed up in order to create an investigative and scientific panorama academically legitimate. For this purpose, instead of opting for a simple architectural design analysis what would be more expected is assumed, in conformity with the plurality of contemporary metropolis itself, a polyhedric focus and a more essayistic feature. / A sociedade contemporânea pode ser caracterizada, dentre outros aspectos, pela transmutação, pela velocidade e pelo excesso, descontruindo-se e reconstruindo-se a todo instante. É, também, nesse cenário que muitos conceitos ou noções conceituais, das mais diversas áreas, são postos em xeque. Na arquitetura mas não apenas nela têm sido recorrentes as tentativas de teorização a respeito dos atributos próprios dos lugares, assim como suas potenciais implicações sobre as relações humanas. Segundo o antropólogo francês Marc Augé, os lugares podem se definir como identitários, relacionais e históricos: sendo algum desses atributos enfraquecido, configuram-se os não-lugares. Buscando abarcar a natureza de tal fenômeno e compreender como a polivalência do mundo contemporâneo colabora na produção e reprodução dos não-lugares, lança-se mão, aqui, de uma abordagem inter, trans e multidisciplinar: geografia, antropologia, história, psicologia, arquitetura e cinema somam-se com o intuito de criar um panorama investigativo-científico academicamente legítimo. Para isso, ao invés de se optar por uma mera análise projetual que seria mais previsível , assume-se, em ressonância com a pluralidade da própria metrópole contemporânea, um enfoque poliédrico e de cunho mais ensaístico.

This thesis deals with the most dynamically evolving Prague district Karlin. In the context of the theory of Marc Augé about non-places, it primarily addresses the transformation of Karlin after the floods in 2002 and its consequences. For easier orientation in this area it is at first outlined the theory of Marc Augé and the history of Karlin. It is followed by the practical part, which refers to the production of non- places. Against the backdrop of the industrial heritage it refers to the conversion of industrial buildings and the creation of new administrative centers that show signs of non-places. Construction of new office centers started the process of new development of Karlin. The nature of this process and the direction Karlin is moving , is presented with concrete examples. I note in particular the changes in the structure of newly opened businesses - shops and catering facilities . In the last part of the thesis I mention the typical expression of non-place in Karlin - the underground and its surroundings. The aim is to point out that the conversion of Karlin relates to the production of non- places. Keywords : conversion, industrial buildings, Karlin, Marc Augé, non-places, office buildings, office centers, underground.

This study explores the theme of spatiality as based on a reading of the novel Flammenwand. Roman mit Anmerkungen. by Marlene Streeruwitz, and takes as its focus points the notion of atopias/non-places, the disciplining nature of spaces, the necropolitics of division, and the idea of chronotope to discover how the story is situated. The study further considers how idyllic interpretations of the space of origin are treated as utopic in the novel. Relying as well on Jurij M. Lotman’s thoughts on the structure and limits of the text/work of art, the study aims to suggest how the theme of boundaries and transgressing them also is shown in the form of the novel.