Sausan Haj Abdová↓

About the work

Promised Pankrác

#work #factory #city #sustainability #cooperation

What is your graduation work about?

My graduation work explores the architectural design possibilities based on cooperation on a model example of the Prague Pankrác district. It is an area mixing high-rise buildings of corporations, an urban highway, shopping malls, dilapidated structures, and emptiness. We are working on the place collectively. I focus on Na Strži Street and the subject of work, specifically, the production’s position in a post-industrial city. I am interested in how the location of a factory can contribute to a more sustainable city. I examine the prospects of multiple layers, the combination of production and other functions, such as culture, sport, agriculture, and housing. The supporting idea is the street as a workshop, a place where production seeps into the city and the city into it.

What do you do besides your graduation work?

On myself and the people around me.

In what conditions would you like to work on your graduation work?

We thought about this when forming the joint assignment. We agreed to reject the established competition for the best project system and instead chose an experiment in the form of cooperation and collective power. It is also because we consider the designing and discussing process in the framework of the studies more important than the final work.

What would you imagine to be an alternative culmination of your studies at AVU, in place of the defense of your graduation work?

I imagine a non-hierarchical discussion rather than defending a graduation work, including with students from other studios. I feel we address similar questions, each having a specific means of answering them but not sharing them enough.