SPOLIA

SPOLIA is a thesis project that explores cooperative multiscalar spoliation as an alternative system of architecture and social / economic organization. Constructed from the steel of decommissioned industrial plants, SPOLIA presents a building as a catalyst for spoliation and a system for the redistribution of common wealth. 

SPOLIA manifests architecturally through the ASSEMBLY HALL – a hybrid typology combining material storehouses, fabrication facilities, general assembly spaces, and mixed-use housing. This is complemented by an integrated digital platform that automates and facilitates many aspects of assembly while enabling collective participation and individual agency in the process of value production.

SPOLIA calls for a moratorium on emission and extraction and an optimistic expropriation of the material wealth already embedded in the built environment.