AA Cyprus-UN Buffer Zone Visiting School 'Rebuilding No Man's Land'

The Integrated Landscape designed for the No Man’s Land Project workshop held in 2010, by students from the Dessau Institute of Architecture (Christos Passas Studio).

Agenda The United Nations Buffer Zone in Cyprus, is a demilitarized zone patrolled by the UN Peacekeeping Force that spans the full length of the island from west to east and covers an area of around 350km². Although accounting for only around 3% of the island’s total area, the UN Zone has turned into a separate geopolitical entity of its own that will potentially play a vital political and economical role in a future reunification of the island’s north and south parts. The Visiting School will draw from the results of the “No Man’s Land Project” workshop (held in 2010) and will be based on the hypothetical event of the return of the confiscated land and villages inside the Buffer Zone back to their former proprietors, following a 38-year period of abandonment. The main agenda will be to explore how digital tools can address the conflicting nature of the Zone on an urban scale and explore non-linear scenarios of enabling its targeted rehabilitation. Intensive tuition by experienced tutors will be in the following software platforms: Rhino/Grasshopper for Rhino/Python scripting for Rhino and Grasshopper. Eligibility The workshop is open to current architecture and design students, phd candidates and young professionals worldwide. Teaching Staff Pavlos Fereos [Bartlett GAD RC2 Tutor] Kostas Grigoriadis [AA Diploma Unit 2 Tutor] Michail Georgiou [ARC University of Nicosia Lecturer] Alkis Dikaios [Partner Dikaios+Associates] + Invited guests to be announced soon http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/cyprus http://cyprus.aaschool.ac.uk/