The suburban territory is continuously growing. On the edge of the multilayered but clearly defined and comprehensible urban space, the sprawl thrives and proliferates in a complex confusion that is almost impossible to disentangle. Apparently, this space has no identity, no expression, no relevance worthy of exploration. The everyday life resembles a matter of self-evidence, manifested in the midst of anonymous functional buildings, infrastructures, industrial sites, commercial rows and housing estates. Can quality and identity-forming architecture exist within this aesthetically deficient, featureless, ordinary space? How can such areas be conceived in the future?

The emphasis of this thesis is the formulation of a philosophy of everyday observation as well as the concentrated perception of an architectural reality in all its detailed depth. The spatial monotony of the suburban landscape of the Rein- and Gratwein-Gratkorn Basin is investigated by means of observation walks. The perception is followed by an awareness and recognition of the endotic, infra-ordinary, which eludes any attention, on the basis of its complete self-evidence, within the ordinary, everyday, known, domestic space. Infrastructures as endotic memory fragments form the substructure, the site-immanent supporting skeleton of the spatial agglomeration. The unnoticed, overlooked structural forms are analyzed and questioned through the abstract artistic-scientific gaze of the drawing. The questioning seeks an origin, a present, a future and transformation of this fragments and the situated structural reality.