Undergraduate architecture studio Winter 2022

Wallenberg Thesis: Borders

Mapping a refugee’s journey through Europe

Type: Undergraduate architecture studio
Term: Winter 2022
Team: Wud Aldulaimy

By using Eyal Weizman’s forensic architecture techniques, I mapped out a Ukrainian refugee’s journey through Europe over a couple of months.

Title panel: Borders

Panel: Borders, immigrants, home, with a collage of border imagery

Panel with photographs of a shoreline and a border wall

Panel with a passage of text and a photograph of a house

Panel: Parallels, identity, memories

Panel with street photographs of damaged buildings in a Ukrainian city

Panel with a world map tracing the route of the journey

Panel with two columns of narrative text

Panel with aerial photographs and drawings of the route

Panel: Forensic Architecture, introducing Eyal Weizman’s method

Panel with photographs of a bombed government building

Panel: Loss and reconstruction, with a portrait

Panel with street-level photographs of a city square

Panel with photographs of refugees gathering at a border crossing

Panel with grey figure-ground maps of the cities along the route

Closing panel: Borders