from edge to border - a concrete landscape is a project realized by Alejandro Elias Garcia Marta in TU Delft for his Msc theses (urbanism: spacelab, architecture: border condition) in 2008. It takes place in Istanbul (Turkey).
The starting inquiry revolves around the question on how to visualize and conceptualize urban processes? How can we go to an unknown city, without a pre-given idea of the actual urban field, and produce an insightful observation about the forces operating in space? Thus, a conscious rejection of preconceived ideas about the city of Istanbul was the first starting condition of the research leading to the question of how spatial strategies and tactics get perform around the territorial movement structures of the city? What do they produce? How can we represent such a non-linear series of events?
