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susannah farrugia

photography


  1. il-ġebla 
  2. somewhere in the mediterranean
  3. backpacking south east asia: coming soon
  4. ongoing travelogue
  5. commissions


projects


  1. the architecture of inhabitation
  2. a living city: co-creating our human habitat
  3. the magic of temporality & fleetingness
  4. the network of resources
  5. the garden as therapy
  6. rituals in rock & clay
  7. the school beneath the hills
  8. contemporary boathouse 
  9. valletta power station
  10. lab / prototype
  11. matter make
  12. playscape


workshops


  1. eros in transgression @ re:easa
  2. cairn @ easa tourist
  3. day night day night day
  4. skalda

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susannah is a maltese architectural designer & photographer who graduated from the university of malta with a special interest in social architecture, spatial agency & inhabitation.

in her photography, she shoots a mix of 35mm film & digital.
etrenally inspired by the maltese islands & their geographical landscape, her work expresses the language of ancient rock, cystal waters, crusty sea salt tracing constellations on one’s skin & the warmth of the sun. the architectural compositions these elements naturally form & people’s interaction with this environment become moments of presence & wonder. she seeks to tell the story of the sense of home this little floating rock encapsulates within the wider themes of mediterranean-ness & culture.

a collector of rocks, seashells, books & records, her other interests include beach-exploring, hiking, travelling & cooking (but more so eating).

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© 2020-2024 susannah farrugia
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3. the magic of temporality & fleetingness


experimenting with an architecture more of time than of space

concept development


2019
m. arch. y1 s1


          the magic of ephemeral instances within the context of a prolonged temporary state of latent potential.













context


finding the existing magic in marsa & amplifying it

garages in marsa: portals to alternate realities spontaneously pop up

power station crater: the presence of absence alternate history (nuclear explosion?) &  future projections (community pop ups?) 


intent:

one cannot design such fleeting moments, but can design for them to allow them to happen; to encourage them at best.

first, in order to appreciate these moments, a change in personal psychology is required to ensure the right mindset. this can be achieved through the fulfilment of the latent potential of the people of marsa, triggered by the primary instigator (i.e. the intervention).

after all, these are the people that built & powered malta. one only needs to plug the community’s energy back into itself.


proposal:

thus, the proposal developed from an urban scale strategy seeking to amplify the fleeting moments within marsa. this was then filtered down into a micro strategy for more localised interventions followed by the specific interventions themselves.


macro strategy






micro strategy




















 sketch of imagined streetscape for a post-industrial marsa


collage of imagined roofscape






urban scale: amplification of fleeting moments within marsa







final presentation
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