Invisible Topometries

Among ruins, party walls, and abandoned spaces, in an area marked by aggressive demolitions, a series of metal markers of varying heights propose a reconnection of the site with its urban and natural layers.

Through an oblique arrangement relative to the street — echoing the old, vanished urban fabric — the linear installation opens toward the city, inviting multiple uses and socializing in public space. The project collects rainwater from a fragment of a building that survived demolition, channeling it toward an area of domestic and wild plants, on the site of a disappeared interior courtyard. The memory of the pre-modern period, when the area was wet and storks built their nests, retraces alternative future scenarios in which biodiversity and the coexistence of human and non-human inhabitation were more intertwined.

By transforming the marker from an instrument of measurement and control into a spatial landmark of neighborhood, the project speculates on urban mediation scenarios, bringing earlier spatial configurations into dialogue with future perspectives.

Team: Atelier Ad hoc, Cristi Borcan