“The flight from neighborhoods, the flight from local communities, into networking, it erodes democracy. It is in the local meetings where civic virtue and democratic discourse are practiced.” Christopher Lash writes this in his book The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy. Encounters between people of different backgrounds, experiences, and ideologies are on the verge of extinction in a society where community has been replaced with networking. The neighborhood is just a container for our home, but we go elsewhere to work and socialize. We are to a lesser extent tied to a specific place. With locality as a point of departure, I chose my hometown as the base for my project. Tranås is a small town in southern Sweden with about 15.000 inhabitants. There, anonymity is not an option. Encounters take place. Whether you like it or not, people are united by the mere fact of physical proximity. I wanted to favor locality by making it easier to stay in the local community and enable for more people to settle outside the big cities. My answer to this is a remote working place. An office where you can work remotely full time, or as a complement to your regular workplace. The user group is people in Tranås that usually commutes to other cities, and people that would like to move to Tranås. Through contact with local actors, I got introduced to a building in the very central part of Tranås that I decided to adapt and reuse. The building was originally built as a nursing home during the first half of the 20th century but has now been empty for some years. The size and location of the building opened up new possibilities. In addition to the offices, the building will also house studio space, exhibition space, and a café. With a few interventions and modifications, the building becomes a new meeting place, where the courtyard gets an important role in the public space.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:UPSALLA1/oai:DiVA.org:umu-184166 |
| Date | January 2021 |
| Creators | Stenlund, Alva |
| Publisher | Umeå universitet, Arkitekthögskolan vid Umeå universitet |
| Source Sets | DiVA Archive at Upsalla University |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Student thesis, info:eu-repo/semantics/bachelorThesis, text |
| Format | application/pdf |
| Rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess |
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