Mümün Keser from Austria/Landeck | “I am a master student of architecture at the LFU Innsbruck and am currently working on my master thesis. In my spare time I also work as a computer-aided designer and artist (freelance). I like to try things out, and every time I approach a new design task I want it to be as different as possible from my previous work.”

University: LFU Innsbruck

Professor(s): Jose Carlos Lopez Cervantes

Instagram Username: @mmnksr

Name of Project: nGoth.

Project Description: The project was designed for the "Garbage City" in Manshiyat Naser, Cairo. The entire area is filled with semi-finished buildings based on the Dom-Ino typology of Le Corbusier. It is like a living organism that grows up one-dimensionally when more space is needed. Nevertheless, there are a lot of infrastructural and ecological problems.

To solve this, I proposed to introduce further typologies into the scene. I merged the Dom-Ino type with Claude Parent's "L'architecture d'oblique" type and used both types to create something like a gothic church type. But the problem with a Gothic church type is that it is a two-dimensional growth, and I wanted something that grows in every direction, three-dimensional. So I created a structure that grows three-dimensionally and connects to the neighboring buildings at some points. The main idea was to create a structure that connects the whole city, opens new infrastructural possibilities and preserves/reveals new areas.