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beams struts offers itself as a clandestine retreat. We ascend
into these upper reaches – loft, storage area or attic room – in
order to hide objects or to conceal ourselves.
Literature: Burren et al. 2008> ceiling, cell, interior, residence, spaceRoutes are formed by the acts of walking. In the undisturbed
landscape, pathways form from the traces of frequently
travel, which gradually become routes, which are finally wid-
ened into spaces having their own gestalts. We gain access to
space by walking, and various forms of walking represent the
formalized expressions of our mental states. In a fundamen-
tal way, our gait is oriented forward by our bodily disposi-
tion, with its front/back depth axis. A line runs from a person
towards a goal. The same travel route is not identical com-
ing and going, because the return has an altered goal and a
reversed perspective.
Michel de Certeau (2011) has characterized ‘walking in
the city’ as a form of expression that is analogous to speak-
ing a language. Through the routes that we choose, we enact
space, actualizing one among the many possibilities for using
urban space, excluding others, and adding new ones through
our activity. Walking is a form of appropriation, the ‘spatial
realization of a place’. But in addition, chosen routes are lines
that are read for their meanings, where we moreover leave
traces that remain in > memory, and which can be reread and
at the same time store memories. Trade and pilgrimage routes
manifest this on the scale of the landscape. In a home, routes
belong to the > figures of movement through which traces of
action and patterns of activity assume form, and which are in
turn objectified through furnishings and fittings.
According to the psychologist Kurt Lewin, a concep-
tion of space that is based on opening up through routes, ac-Room
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