247ture acts directly upon us in order to elicit behaviour, to facili-
tate, hinder or compel specific activities – may be overlaid or
disguised by the content of readings suggested by its form, by
the meanings it disseminates or the stories it narrates.> context, intermediate space, inversion, space-body contin-
uum
> body (human), floor, form character, postures
> meaning, sign, symbol
> darkness, colour, gaze, light, resonance space, surface, trans-
parency, window
> memory, monument, place, time
> dwelling, form character, interior, movement, postures, rit-
ual
> column, monument, ritual, symbol, sign
> body (architectural), circulation, concavity and convexity,
field, form character, force field, space shadowReduced to a minimum, a dwelling is little more than a ‘place
to lay one’s head’; in the broadest sense, it is ‘the way in which
people are on the earth’ (Heidegger 1953/2008, 141). On the
one hand, residence can be reduced to the physical existential
minimum; on the other, it is a general and essential trait of our
existence. Architecture does justice to this broad spectrum of
meaning firstly by shaping a residence into a usable dwell-
ing, and secondly by fulfilling the preconditions which allow
residence to emerge as a universal basis for the lives of occu-
pants. In both regards, residence must offer opportunities for
retreat as well as for self-development. Their interplay shapes
the various types of residence, so that a home’s architecture
becomes a mirror of the lifestyles of occupants.
Particularly decisive for a residence is the relationship
between individual and collective (1), the rapport between
closure and opening towards the world (2), between stand-Reciprocity
Reclining
Reference
Reflection
Remembrance
Repose/Rest
Representation
Repulsion
Residence