Space Metamorphosis
INSPIRATION EXPEREMENTATION
Architecture and design have always been full of innovation and experimentation. During history, architects have been facing different challenges related to aesthetics, function, social aspects, sustainability and so on. They were dealing with these challenges according to the knowledge and tools of that time and not all experimentations led to success, but they were always inspiring to others and were catalyzers for change. One of the architects who had a chance to change architectural principles was Leon Battisa Alberti. He proposed to exclude time from the making of architecture, which was named “Building-outside-Time”. Before his intrusion, the creation of buildings were seen as work of several generations, where buildings were constantly evolving; where people imagined buildings as a work in process, where changes were active tools in the design process. [12] However, in the fifteenth-century, it changed and architects started to think of spaces as perfect and self contained objects. Alberti have changed dramatically the way we perceive buildings in relation to time. This again relates to the Virilio’s speed-space mentioned above, the introduction of new visions, technologies and progress has an effect on the way architects and engineers design and create. New tools bring new opportunities and challenges and, in order to deal with them, it is necessary to experiment and by doing that develop new methods and technique which responds to the current and future needs. In the following pages we will exemplify historic and current experimentation projects related to relationships between different layers of privacy and space transformations.
[12] Trachtenberg, M. 2010
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