123> personal space, which is able to expand further when our
room for manoeuvre is not restricted by spatial delimitations.
With their open or staggered arrangements, of course, rooms
whose boundaries have been broken open, whose walls no
longer form closed contours or containers, do inhibit spatial
expansion at certain points, but never block it entirely. Also
contributing to metaphorical images of flowing movement is
the likewise ‘flowing’, visible spatial medium of > light, which
permeates a room via intermediate spaces, penetrates walls, is
reflected, and carries the beholder along visually even when
he or she does not engage in movement. The interplay of con-
tinuous space, light and spatial expanse within a dynamically
structured texture can convey the experience of a delightfully
free yet guided movement through space.
It is possible to prevent a space from ‘flowing away’ en-
tirely by selective, compact arrangements of separate three-
dimensional or planar elements so that even in flowing spaces,
zones with suggested enclosures are formed. This is decisive in
particular for the recognizable framing of urban spaces with
amenity qualities, which otherwise threaten to collapse into
an accumulation of isolated objects between spatial voids and
traffic streams.
Literature: Zurfluh 2009When a surface is folded, one side is reversed into the other.
Each time, a certain volume of space is folded into it. In cases
of multiple folding, convex and concave sections alternate, so
that the space on one side is interlocked with that lying on the
other. One is everted into the other, and vice versa. Folding,
then, is a process by which in principle > inside and outside or
above and below interpenetrate by means of a folded divid-
ing surface. In particular, the interrelationship between spaces
achieved thereby provides a basis for spatial > inversion.
When one lingers inside of spatial folds, one finds oneself in
a zone that projects into an adjacent space and is surroundedFolding