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Phase 2b
The students were asked to analyze the case studies through the relations between
private vs. public and construct models of such relations. They had in fact, to deal
with the time factor, a rather tough issue to touch upon. What came out of this exer-
cise was that they had to discover and analyze mechanisms that form the relations
between public and private and how these relations vary over time (image 07). One
example is that of case study No 2, the flying coffee shop, where a student constructed
a model representing in fact, the unfolding of the movement and servicing of the
flying coffee shop man in the old city centre (image 08)
Analyzing the case study No 4, the large shopping centre in the periphery of
Nicosia, was rather a difficult task for the students. They were exposed to the large
scale of the shopping centre and the consumer “noise” that in fact became crucial
for their design on the final phase.
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