Project Thesis – Fall 2019
Beyond the Rock: A Gibraltar in the Making is a collective project that reimagines Gibraltar not as a static outpost, but as a dynamic territory shaped by flux. Situated at the confluence of continents, oceans, and geopolitical currents, Gibraltar becomes a lens to examine the intersection of movement, infrastructure, and identity. The project challenges the Rock’s historical image of immobility, instead proposing spatial strategies that embrace its role as a site of tension, transit, and transformation. It envisions a future where shifting borders, economic potential, and ecological flows are engaged as design tools for rearticulating the territory’s relevance.
Incorporating, altering, and optimizing existing movement and flows, twelve individual contributions are in flux and of flux: sometimes protecting, guiding, stabilizing them; sometimes forming catalysts, generators or new facilitators.
This is Not a Bay
Eleftheria Xerou
Eleftheria Xerou
In & Of the Rock
Zhichao Tu
Zhichao Tu
Nomadic Nature(s)
Noortje Weenink
Noortje Weenink
Pit Stop
Yu-Li Liao
Yu-Li Liao
Shop Til You Drop
Seung Keun Lee
Seung Keun Lee
Campus Acupuncture
Panagiotis Rigopoulos
Panagiotis Rigopoulos
Inn Gibraltar
Pavel Bouse
Pavel Bouse
Hospitable Hospital
Francesca Giudetti
Francesca Giudetti
Rumor Has It
Hao Yu
Hao Yu
Culinary Culture
Elli Papachristopoulou
Elli Papachristopoulou
Power Struggle
Simon Stewart
Simon Stewart

Cartographic Gibraltar
Pelin Arslan
Pelin Arslan

An exhibition of an architectural project about Gibraltar made together in eleven parts
Contributors
Pelin Arslan (TR)
Pavel Bouše (CZ)
Francesca Giudetti (IT)
Seung Keun Lee (KR)
Yu-Li Liao (TW)
Elli Papachristopoulou (GR)
Panagiotis Rigopoulos (GR)
Simon Stewart (ZA)
Zhichao Tu (CN)
Noortje Weenink (NL)
Eleftheria Xerou (CY)
Hao Yu (TW)
Pelin Arslan (TR)
Pavel Bouše (CZ)
Francesca Giudetti (IT)
Seung Keun Lee (KR)
Yu-Li Liao (TW)
Elli Papachristopoulou (GR)
Panagiotis Rigopoulos (GR)
Simon Stewart (ZA)
Zhichao Tu (CN)
Noortje Weenink (NL)
Eleftheria Xerou (CY)
Hao Yu (TW)
With guidance by
Hugo Corbett
Salomon Fraust
Michiel Riedijk
Hugo Corbett
Salomon Fraust
Michiel Riedijk
Thesis Examination Committee
Dick van Gameren
Kees Kaan
Daniel Rosbottom
Paul Vermeulen
Nathalie de Vries
Dick van Gameren
Kees Kaan
Daniel Rosbottom
Paul Vermeulen
Nathalie de Vries