Homing Cities
Delineating Constitutions for Those off the Map
![Structured grid, ISO Section, possible spaces. Wall of Irony. van Niekerk,T. Unit 13. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/85f9d84b4386cdb02a2dd11b82f15eed159dc97da9b7377ce76794a0055481ad/Artboard-1.png)
CHARTERED: 4 INSTINCTS + 1 GENE. Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.
Gio Rech
MArch 2021Supervisors:
Unit Leader: Thireshen Govender
Unit Leader: Jiaxin Gong
Unit Tutor: Sarah Harding
UNIT 14︎︎︎
Rogue Economies - Trade Roots: HOME
Homing speaks of two conditions: a navigational tendency in which features such as beacons, architectures and incorporeal systems are used to read home in fluctuant landscapes; and the approach of formal and legislative powers like the Bill of Rights to “blueprint” the future home. The term’s apparent disjunct for those forced to live precariously in the margins, organising societal structures themselves, calls for a spatial reinterpretation of the South African Constitution.
The two conditions are represented and investigated through a new cartographic language: itinerant plotting refers to the dynamic plotting or drawing of the im/migrant’s journey through liminal space. This method of plotting is a response to the unpredictable influences in an uncertain voyage and paper is used and manipulated in several ways with the intention of drawing out the relationship between Home’s fragility and its many imaginary principles.
The proposal is focused on pushing this notion that home is a far more fluid construct which can be read, negotiated and programmed into space other than its origin. It proposes a spatial deformation of the two versions of “Homing” through complex sectional drawings to organise a potential reinterpretation of what constitutes a Home using augmentable architectures as writing tools.
The two conditions are represented and investigated through a new cartographic language: itinerant plotting refers to the dynamic plotting or drawing of the im/migrant’s journey through liminal space. This method of plotting is a response to the unpredictable influences in an uncertain voyage and paper is used and manipulated in several ways with the intention of drawing out the relationship between Home’s fragility and its many imaginary principles.
The proposal is focused on pushing this notion that home is a far more fluid construct which can be read, negotiated and programmed into space other than its origin. It proposes a spatial deformation of the two versions of “Homing” through complex sectional drawings to organise a potential reinterpretation of what constitutes a Home using augmentable architectures as writing tools.
![13 WAYS TO READ A HOMING PIGEON: FLIGHT OF P.706. . Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/0d0b94806d988c8d3f232fd1b155c3dda5b4aab075fe6b12d33995ed10789c26/U14_M2_Rech--G_2021_Image-4.jpg)
![13 WAYS TO READ A HOMING PIGEON: THE FOLLY . Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/466ff27327aff2adaff4a503f68c9f73d5fd0d0b699c97bcd035d0640e248324/Artboard-2.png)
![ONSETTING TRAPS: TERMAL TRAP. Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/564df5fa6c2b3196f04558c55e44d7a807ecc6b6db44b7829e1811ae44605c2e/Artboard-6.png)
![DERIVE SUIT: SCOOPING SHROWD. Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/f52ba5b31907c4df8f3b85cd4d90073e498eab0de1bc9f59891d7e40e0764741/U14_M2_Rech--G_2021_Image-5.jpg)
![RELUCTANT HOMES 01. Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/8f2567aeafba9ad73bb3c8f7b9627941b3ae3e88b39e081aa723b86fab09096d/U14_M2_Rech--G_2021_Image-7.png)
![BORROWLAND 03: PRISONER MODEL. Rech, G. Unit 14. 2021.](https://freight.cargo.site/t/original/i/a311e7e4f5a9442b4391f7d6d69c2d213f7140e3aa2fe70e513b390f0acd1837/Artboard-8.png)
Keywords:
Lacuna, Post-Liminal Fuzz, Limens, Homing, Peripatetic, Itinerant, Spatiovore, Gadabout, Indexical
Lacuna, Post-Liminal Fuzz, Limens, Homing, Peripatetic, Itinerant, Spatiovore, Gadabout, Indexical
Copyright © 2022 Graduate School of Architecture, University of Johannesburg, South Africa. All Rights Reserved.