The countryside has been long forgotten while technology is changing at a rapid pace, something we’re not stopping to consider. In this thesis I aim to catalogue the current state of the countryside and it’s near future. Something that’s right in front of us but that we currently lack the resources to realise. The research work will be delivered in the form of speculative architecture and storytelling. It is presented as a book, with each chapter focusing on a different aspect of this new countryside and its potential. This research provides a platform for us to begin to think about these new scenarios and future prospects in order to design sensitively.  A majority of the work is delivered through montages. The compositions utilise already existing elements in society and combine them to produce new spaces that tells us something. I chose to use montages as I felt like they were a successful way to summarise the research of a broad subject field.

This project is examining the possibility of reusing a space taken by a transportation structure, the Nuselský most, a bridge located in Prague, and speculates about its uses in a carless future.  A bridge structure is perceived as a connection, a shelter, or a barrier, but how can we use the space In Between the Bridge? The project is connecting future living desires with remains from the past and utilizing a structure that might become obsolete while proposing a vertical community for a post-materialistic generation oriented towards health, nature, self-realization, individualism, and sustainability, supporting social interactions in society.It is an investigation of an ability of a structure to be flexible in response to the demands of society and the ability to expand over time while using space already taken by the bridge. Modularity is used as a tool to achieve higher freedom in populating the void and in combining different typologies in one structure. Relation between horizontal and vertical city life is presenting new opportunities for community meeting points, unexplored urban spaces, and forming new connections within the city.