MUZEUL DIN STRADĂ
THE MUSEUM IN THE STREET

Summary/Abstract: Architecture is defined classically as built form, opposed to the open space by marking the threshold between inside and outside. The enclosure represents a material delimitation between the two areas which have different activities, behaviors and experiences assigned to them. In the present time, we witness a tendency of dematerializing the threshold which becomes diffuse and turns itself into a conceptual space, negotiating the inside/ outside interrelationship. In order to exemplify this kind of situations, we shall concentrate upon the museum which breaks its physical limits and takes out its activities into the public space, into the street which thus converts from transition zone to being exploited at a cultural level. Hereby we also witness the modification of the common type of activities and cognition that the street relates to. These facts avail the emergence of a temporal architecture and in this article we wish to expose the characteristics and the architectural, sociological and anthropological implications of the relationships between museums and public space.

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