Architecture as liminal Space

• Main Author: Nilly Harag
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: University of Bologna 2015-11-01
• Series: In_Bo
• Subjects: Limit; Empathy; Threshold; Design; Curiosity
• Online Access: http://in_bo.unibo.it/article/view/5923

The point of departure of the architectural project has to stem from the combination of inner and outer journeys in between the real or imagined limits. The pressing challenge is to destabilize the neat division of architecture into separate bodies of knowledge and pose the architect’s mode of action on the threshold between the concrete and the universal. Architecture is a lens, an instrument one looks through to bring new perspectives into focus, enabling the transformation of experience from a magnified self-concentrated space to a wide horizon. Architecture narrates relations between spaces and examines its validity through signifying practices of design. Design for itself becomes the language of the current, of the immediate fashion. Architecture can fulfill peoples’ dreams and miraculously can provide them tools to invent new ones: Curiosity is the first motive to act.