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Regeneration Station at Imereti

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Student Fergal Voorsanger-Brill
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Unit UG14
Year 2

This series of projects examines time, individuals and their spaces as architecture.


The first project explored the volume that a person inhabits in time through a series of week-long activities that required new skills, such as film making, 3D modelling or animation.


The building project is set in Tskaltubo, Georgia, where building and maintaining one's own home is sometimes a necessity. The programme is a portable construction school that teaches sustainable self-build skills through practical projects. 


The town of Tskaltubo was a popular Soviet spa town but it has since fallen into disrepair; there are at least 22 abandoned sanatoriums being used by squatters. The proposed portable travelling school migrates around Tskaltubo, rebuilding and remixing these grand ruins into safer housing and studio spaces for young Georgians.


The brief discusses temporary and permanent material languages because the building has two main timeframes. It stays at each sanatorium for two years but leaves behind repairs that will last upwards of 60 or more years, until the repairs themselves are remixed.


The aim of the school is to teach students that building and designing are one and the same; that building can be as personal as drawing or painting.

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