As I began to gain an understanding of rooftop conditions and the poverty in which those who chose to live on rooftops live, I started to think up a design proposal for a city in the Sky. I first made a material collage of the skyline in Athens to show how I see the rooftop condition in the city as a datum line. The collage shows the panorama of Athens as a never-ending urban sprawl of rooftops throughout the surrounding landscape. Materials included tracing paper to show the Polykatoikia structures, collaged photos of rooftops I had photographed while on site in Athens, and broken wooden chopsticks. The aim of the collage was to capture the material variety of the rooftops and establish that the rooftops are a datum within the city of Athens.
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