GOLDEN SHOE PARK! : THE STORY OF THE CITY PLAYGROUNDS

Abstract

This thesis aims to explore the myriad of differing boundaries or identities, socially as well as architecturally within the city. Rediscovering and acknowledging the interstitial multiplural spaces in between them, as spaces for contention, spaces for promiscuity or spaces for negotiations. What are the physical definitions of such an element? OR what physical delimitation will allow the space for such events to happen? The new era proposes these differences or different enclaves to come together in a symbiotic or even hybrid fashion. Using the insomniac subject (city dweller) as an isolated explorer into the city depths, while the majority of the country is at rest or sleeping, he will suss out the landscape of the "silent", lingering darkness. He will intend to rehabilitate his uncentred houselessness (inconsolable loneliness in his plight) through his discoveries, containment and transformation of his fears and anxieties into excitement and the eventual hopeful rest.