The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that works at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights, or design and activism. FAST seeks to make visible systemic violence and improve the quality of the built environment and people's livelihoods. Our interdisciplinary and multi-scalar projects include the award-winning book 'Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine,' 'Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise,' the long-term collaborative research project BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions and Design for legacy, which examines and makes UN peace missions' impact on cities and communities visible. FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.
The Foundation for Achieving Seamless Territory is an architectural think-tank that works at the intersection of architecture, urban planning and human rights, or design and activism. FAST seeks to make visible systemic violence and improve the quality of the built environment and people's livelihoods. Our interdisciplinary and multi-scalar projects include the award-winning book 'Atlas of the Conflict: Israel-Palestine,' 'Village. One Land Two Systems and Platform Paradise,' the long-term collaborative research project BLUE: Architecture of UN Peacekeeping Missions and Design for legacy, which examines and makes UN peace missions' impact on cities and communities visible. FAST is led by Malkit Shoshan.
An abandoned hotel from the Soviet period in Tbilisi, Georgia, becomes a vertical village housing refugees from the war in the Caucasus region: each room becomes a capsule where individual transformations reconstruct interrupted lives.
The project was researched, mapped and illustrated by FAST with Julia Roth and One Architecture, photographed by Dirk-Jan and has narrated together with Christian Ernsten.
The project was exhibited in the 2007 Rotterdam Architecture Biennial.
