Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities

Bertug Ozarisoy is an architect and expert in building energy modelling in Cyprus. His research focuses on understanding the theory between architecture and energy policy design in conjunction with exploring the impact of passive cooling systems on domestic energy use and households’ thermal comfort. He is interested in environmental design and the development of novel design applications throughout his architectural practice. He has ten years’ of experience in intensive teaching, academic research and architectural practice. He was involved with the BSc (Hons) Construction Management programme at the University of East London between September 2016 and 2018. He has developed teaching skills to demonstrate significant intellectual input to students’ technical drawings and monitor their learning adaptability and integration to the Construction Technology and Materials module. Currently, Dr. Bertug Ozarisoy is a postdoctoral researcher at the Middle East Technical University (METU) Northern Cyprus Campus where he teaches two post-graduate taught courses, which are entitled ‘Deep Energy Retrofit’ and ‘Environmental Design and Engineering’, as part of his postdoctoral research in the Sustainable Environment and Energy Systems (SEES) programme. He is also the first author of many scholarly articles relevant to the building engineering field. He has been mostly involved with research projects in the Sustainable Development of the Built Environment (SDBE) and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in Europe.Hasim Altan is Professor of Sustainable Design and Architectural Engineering in the Faculty of Design, and Director of the Research Centre at Arkin University of Creative Arts and Design (ARUCAD) in Kyrenia, Cyprus. He is a Chartered Architect (RIBA) and a Chartered Engineer (CIBSE) with over 20 years of academic and practice experience in the field of Architecture, Engineering and Construction (AEC) in the Built Environment in UK, Europe, Middle East and North Africa (MENA) regions. He sits on several editorial boards and reviews project proposals for the European Commission, UK Research Councils and Qatar National Research Fund (QNRF) of the Qatar Foundation. Since 2004, he has, singly or jointly, secured and directed 32 research grants worth over £21 million. He is a founding member of the International Network on Zero Energy Mass Custom Home (ZEMCH), which has so far organised eight international conferences, several design workshops, and numerous technical visits. As well as having supervised 17 successful PhD students, Prof. Dr. Altan has published over 280 refereed international journal and conference papers, technical reports, edited books and chapters and editorials in related fields.

"Transgressive Design Strategies for Utopian Cities – Theories, Methodologies and Cases in Architecture and Urbanism" is an extraordinary book on the theory of architecture with an emphasis on the theory of urban design. Transgressive design articulates the active relationship between architecture and power. It is an inclusive approach to eliminate discrimination within spaces.Transgression has not been considered well in architectural education. It is a complex concept and when it is related to urban design, it gets even more complicated. Since this book handles the concept of transgression through philosophy, architectural theory and architectural/urban design, it fills a gap in knowledge and gives a full sense of transgressive design in architecture and urban design.The mark of this book in the minds of its readers will be a deep understanding of transgressive design with all its dimensions -objective and subjective. This is something better than other types of learning, because it provides a stronger understanding which might free many minds and enable them to practice transgressive design."-Prof. Dr. Yonca HurolDepartment of Architecture, Eastern Mediterranean University, Famagusta, Northern Cyprus

• Preface. Acknowledgments. INTRODUCTION. PART 1 – FROM THEORY TO PRACTICE: ENVISIONING UTOPIAN URBAN DESIGN STRATEGIES. 1 - ANALYSIS OF THE CONTEXT IN TWELVE TERMS. 2 - SEARCHING A NEW DIASPORA FOR THE BUFFER ZONE. 3 – POLITICAL DISCOURSE ACTS AS A TRANSNATIONAL CATALYST IN THE DECISION-MAKING PROCESS OF ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN INTERVENTIONS. 4 – TRANSGRESSIVE DESIGN STRATEGIES TOWARDS UTOPIAN URBAN VISION FOR RECLAIMING ARCHITECTURAL DISCOURSE. 5 – A UTOPIA. 6 – REPRESENTATIONS OF DIASPORA, CULTURAL IDENTITY AND DIFFERENCE. 7 – HOUSING AND POLICIES IN THE UNITED KINGDOM. 8 – CONCLUSION. PART 2 – LEARNING FROM THE GLOBE: URBAN REGENERATION, BRAND IDENTITY AND CITY MAKING. 9 – INTRODUCTION. 10 – CASE STUDY 1 - King’s Cross Regeneration Development, London, United Kingdom. 11 – CASE STUDY 2 - Elephant & Castle Regeneration Development, London, United Kingdom. 12 – CASE STUDY 3 - Berlin: The State of Power, Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany. 13 – CASE STUDY 4 – Undercliffe Social Housing, Bradford, United Kingdom. 14 – CONCLUSION. Index.