Borderline Places

Borderline Places proposes the utilization of the extraterritorial exclave in Akrotiri, as a prototype model of automated infrastructure for energy production, water sanitation, and cultivation. The main goal is to exploit this “borderline place” and promote it as a technologically enhanced production and export center of energy.

Borderline Places, Grounding Augmented Landscapes proposes the utilization of the extraterritorial exclave in Akrotiri, Cyprus as a prototype model of automated infrastructure for energy production, water sanitation, and cultivation. The goal is to exploit this “borderline place” and promote it as a technologically enhanced production and export centre of energy.\nThe project aims to utilize these “borderline places” into automated and self-sustainable energy satellites of existing urban structures. The employment of innovative technologies and infrastructure are used to enhanced these borderline places into augmented landscapes. The system will be able to expand, based on the energy requirements of the region. The proposed system is located on an initial grid of dimensions 3km X 3km in which the central nodes are located. It is then divided into individual sub-grids of 750m X 750 m and together they are a tool for organizing the proposal on the entire extraterritory.\nMore specifically, the system is defined by the following components: A) “LANDROOMS” and b) NODES which facilitate both the collection and distribution of all products produced between the systems and their connection to other areas.\nThe “LANDROOMS” are: 1) HIGHGARDEN, vertical farming facilities, 2) WETLANDS, desalination infrastructure and salt production, 3) SOLARIS, thermal solar energy, 4) SKYFALL, innovative wind power plants, 5) MEMORYGUARD, a virtual “museum” for the promotion of areas of historical importance, but also a presentation of the current situation of the place. The “LANDROOMS” start as a unit and then multiply on the landscape by utilizing the modular design and the ease of connection offered by the energy grid and the assembly and connection nodes.\nIn conclusion, this prototype model of augmented landscapes promotes the importance of the interdisciplinary design in modern societies. It is a vision for the future of extraterritories in which these areas will cease to be remnants of the imperialist policy of states towards others. Therefore, they will now be characterized by energy connectivity.