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Constructed edge - Microcosm at Osaka Bay

Constructed edge - Microcosm at Osaka Bay

Site axo

Site axo

Section 1 - Beginning of EXPO

Section 1 - Beginning of EXPO

Section 2 - End of EXPO

Section 2 - End of EXPO

Pavilion interior

Pavilion interior

Spacelessness

Proposed as an antithesis to the discipline itself, the term questions the very embodiment of space and the conditions that produce it. This thesis speculates on the possibility of spacelessness as both critique and proposal: an ethical and architectural condition that rejects the totalising nature of human production. Through a macro lens, this study interrogates architecture as a product of human desire to occupy, define, and control the natural world. The micro lens shifts toward the Production of Osaka Bay, reading it as a microcosm of global spatial politics and material transformation.

Nithya Selvaraj

Spacelessness

Proposed as an antithesis to the discipline itself, the term questions the very embodiment of space and the conditions that produce it. This thesis speculates on the possibility of spacelessness as both critique and proposal: an ethical and architectural condition that rejects the totalising nature of human production. Through a macro lens, this study interrogates architecture as a product of human desire to occupy, define, and control the natural world. The micro lens shifts toward the Production of Osaka Bay, reading it as a microcosm of global spatial politics and material transformation.

Nithya Selvaraj

We recognise and pay respect to the Elders and communities - past, present, and emerging - of the lands that the University of Sydney's campuses stand on. For thousands of years they have shared and exchanged knowledges across innumerable generations for the benefit of all.

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