global strategy _ mediterrania
“Mediterrania” was thought to be a strategic instrument for urbanistics and tourism to scout the self growing development of a linear city at the coastline of the Mediterranean Sea, specially influenced by tourism.
Project title:
Mediterrania
Published: APART research
entry, Austrian Academy of Science, Vienna,
2002;
ASA – world-congress, London 2007
Project term: 2001 -
Concept: su.n -
spaceunit.network
“While there is a wide discussion about
the east expansion of the ec, the same happens
almost unnoticed and inofficial at the south
border, where it is first of all tourism that
changes the whole social field of the
mediterranian. (2002)
Dealing with a huge migration to Europe, we
find European moving especially to the south
where within the last decade a new unnoticed city
has been growing:
“Mediterrania”. It
is not a city in the classical sense, but
following the dissertation
“touristic-landscapes” (TUG,
Doc-Prog. - Austrian Academy of Science 2001), we
see a “linear – knot –
city” (following “Punkt und Linie zu
Fläche”, W.Kandinsky, 1926): first-
and second-row settlements for tourist / domestic
use with knots as a) historic centers and b)
airports / harbours. (2002)
Tourist "Mediterrania" uses the existing site
as a scenery for its event (“un paysage
d´evénements”, paul virilio,
galilée, paris 1996), but in the same time
the infrastructure to para-site the location."
(12.12.2006)
Instead of trying to defend Europe against
migration, investment for the new city part at
the North coast of Africa could be done to
revitalize the Mediterranean basin as a
prospering region.