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Dream: Interzone, ESALA Graduation Project at Edinburgh School of Architecture

Architectural Education Work Progress by Daniel Lomholt-Welch & Lewis Murray, Scotland

31 July 2024

e-architect are following the progress of architecture student Daniel Lomholt-Welch during his degree studies at Edinburgh University.

Dream: I am in the Interzone

Tangier building design and thesis investigation
Daniel Lomholt-Welch & Lewis Murray

Approaching Tangier through an exploration of William Burroughs’ hallucinatory texts and Brion Gysin’s method of cut-ups, the city manifests itself as a parallel, as an other. This teeming sea of relations between, across, and through the city become permutations of Tangier’s material reality; a pin-cushion of imperial flags, camouflaged and flecked with the wear of its fluctuating history. The undertones of colonialism reverberate in its streets, in its language, in its law.

Host and guest switch roles with increasing acceleration, the parasitic visitor corrupting the former only then to be corrupted themselves. Their architectures operate in the intersections, folds, convolutions. Within this process there is no gauge as to whether these devices are relational or real; who is the host – the operator or the monad?

Within Tangier’s former Custom House, notions of tradition, possession and law are stained by the sudden presence of a parallel: the Court of Land Exchange. The historic seeping of parasite into host generates a novel architecture by way of palimpsest. It draws in, extracts, and imitates its architectural setting.

Dream: I am in the Interzone, Tangier

Devices are cast forth from the Court to the city, a manipulated legal framework providing a mandate to reclaim territory in a move against the zeitgeist. This series of chance operations becomes a form of cut-ups that projects back onto itself simultaneously.

Hidden in plain sight, the parasites exploit Tangier’s incongruities to mask themselves as convenient civic infrastructures. A parasitic gantry device takes root in the projection room of Cinema Rif in an apparent move to project films onto a stage across the Gran Socco – while using this as a ploy to consume the interior of the cinema to be reused as material for new parasites.

Bolstered by their endemic presence across the city, the parasites begin to embed themselves in aural, visual and textual forms of representation. The liminal threshold of entity and relation buckles. Using representation as a conduit to creation, the parasites embed themselves in the urban fabric of their conception – Chambers Street. The fleeting encounters across it instigate further proliferation, taking root both in the studio and in public space.

Year 6, Semester 1: Para Sites
Site: Hotel Continental, Tangier
Proposal: Court of Land Exchange

All work by Daniel Lomholt-Welch & Lewis Murray

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