Justyna Kleszcz
Housing Environment, 39/2022, 2022, pp. 20-32
https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.22.010.16588The paper aims to analyze the phenomenon of building an identity of a place using functions that have so far been taboo – caused fear of death, impurity and decay. These include cemeteries, hospitals, morgues, landfills, but also food production facilities such as municipal slaughterhouses and livestock farms. So far, the succession of functions that followed technical development meant that they were located more and more away from downtown areas, and their place replaced those considered to better meet the condition of „urbanity”. This trend is currently being reversed. The example of the Global Abattoir housing estate illustrates the general trend in which there is a departure from the biological sphere of life towards an attempt to build identity without masking the historical role of the place. The analyzed case, however, shows a series of complicated relationships that must occur in order to balance the profane element, reaching out to the subconscious fears of a human being.
Justyna Kleszcz
Housing Environment, 31/2020, 2020, pp. 33-41
https://doi.org/10.4467/25438700SM.20.011.12686This paper aims to analyse challenges that contemporary designers face in creating a living space in the spirit of non-anthropocentric design - a newly emerging trend based in new humanities and the emergence of the idea of post-anthropocentrism in art. In a situation of well-developed sustainable design, creating spaces for wild animals in cities as habitats and refuges has become the next stage in creating a city with the least impact on the environment. The issue of non-anthropocentric design has been studied through the use of case analysis and comparative analysis of buildings ant its components implemented on a different scale, showing a wide range of cases - from small spatial interventions, such as creating nesting places in cities, to transforming the entire design process into an animal-friendly one. The work was based both on an analysis of completed projects and on theoretical works.