Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

161 mediate space in a double sense. We find ourselves, on the one hand, in the space between architectural bodies that lie alon ...

162 By means of staggered spatial layers that are perceptible as > thresholds, it is possible to generate tension in ways tha ...

163 They are not only contraries, but also complementary in rela- tion to one another. In order to enter, one must be outside; c ...

164 toring admission through instruments such as doorbells, in- tercoms, spy holes, or the presence of a doorman, the entrance b ...

165 ambivalence between concealment and revelation generates a special tension between inside and outside. Various types of tran ...

166 panse and freedom of the outside. The development of the individual requires both a delimited space and the possibility of o ...

167 als, through which the architecture ‘turns towards’ the inte- rior and its occupants. When the fineness of the facing of the ...

168 experience interior spaces as cavities that have no exteriors. Only the inner sides of the walls of one’s own apartment are ...

169 intérieur that leads through a building, or the shopping arcade. Within the extreme density of cities like Tokyo, for exampl ...

170 > space-containing walls which not only effect the overlap- ping of inside and outside, but also of body and space. Trans ...

171 The doorway itself already forms its own intermediate space not only as a revolving door or with a draught lobby, but alrea ...

172 > staircase, but also by the political influence through the pro- verbial power of the lobbyists. Architecture assumes th ...

173 Architecture has well-developed means at its disposal for or- ganizing the act of entrance in such a way that we do not sim- ...

174 sion shifts the accessible exterior space into the interior of the building in a continuous way, so that it becomes possible ...

175 ple, one is not only enveloped by external light from multi- ple sides; one’s private affairs are also ‘exhibited’, displaye ...

176 Normally, we move unselfconsciously through an architec- tural structure. Without conscious thought, we generally know which ...

177 whereas the use of coarse, rusticated masonry would have a very different effect. Such proposals for experience and use on t ...

178 location or nodal point within a > spatial structure, it may serve as a decisive point of departure for the intellectual ...

179 edges, and the edges of slopes, as well as canals, streets, rail- way lines and border fences. The spatial > sequences fo ...

180 In principle, all of these features represent the spatial potential of the respective terrain, which may be exploited and en ...