Magnifying the Interstice: exploring the dialogue between architecture's in-betweens
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ndltd-OhioLink-oai-etd.ohiolink.edu-ucin12430223962021-08-03T06:13:23Z Magnifying the Interstice: exploring the dialogue between architecture's in-betweens Mouch, Donald L. Architecture Form Time Site Body Phenomenology Architecture Urban Mixed-Use Residential Senses <p>The interstice is frequently disregarded as architecture's remnant in-between space. Yet magnifying this zone of transition provides its own dialogue for spatial, experiential, and social interactions. The interstice can investigate architecture's transitional spaces via form, time, site, and body.</p><p>At the forefront of the interstitial is the relationship of form: interactions between solid and solid, and solid and void. Voids grown out of the relationships between neighboring solids carry the potential to be experienced as unique zones of transition. This thesis, then, explores breaking down a solid form so as to accentuate the interstitial voids as transitory experiences in our constant movement through architecture. Time also provides architecture with a unique opportunity to accentuate its interstice as the transition from old to new, or from night to day. Rather than simply existing as a line of inconsistency, the interstice provides a space, a zone at which time's transitions become manifest. Another zone of transition arises between building and site. The transition from street to building should not exist as a single doorway, but rather as a progression through an extended series of spatial experiences. Finally, the interstice engages the body through sensorial change. Architecture has the potential to awaken the senses such that design becomes a phenomenological experience expressing meaning and generating a vivid sensory experience through its magnification.</p><p>The intention of this thesis is to uncover and stress the importance of architecture's leftover interstitial spaces. The energy present at the convergence of contrasting entities deserves spatial amplification and recognition. Within a mixed-use project designed for 5th and Elm in downtown Cincinnati, this thesis project emphasizes an exploration of architecture's common interstices, the hallway, staircase, and threshold, resulting in a magnification of these components' everydayness.</p> 2009-08-07 English text University of Cincinnati / OhioLINK http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243022396 http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=ucin1243022396 unrestricted This thesis or dissertation is protected by copyright: all rights reserved. It may not be copied or redistributed beyond the terms of applicable copyright laws. |
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