ARHITECTURA CA SPAŢIU PUBLIC. UTILIZAREA LIMITELOR
ARCHITECTURE AS PUBLIC SPACE. USING THE LIMITS

Summary/Abstract: The boundaries and their breaches always had a vitalimportance in structuring reality – transforming spacesinto places (as a first step in the process of appropriation),highlighting The other and framing the social interactions.The various meanings taken by the limit underline thecomplexity of its understanding and the flexibility of theterm despite its apparent sense of dichotomous demarcation.All its meanings overlap, framing an understandingof the limit as a point, line or even space which assumes amaximum concentration of capacities, interpretation andcreativity.The study of the processes taking place on the boundarygains a greater importance as it underlines the dynamic relationshipbetween spaces and their components and thusthe complexity of both space production and consumption.The contemporary understanding of boundaries andbreaches highlights their immateriality and social dimensions,as people “respond selectively and pragmatically tothe affordances, spinning connections in forms that will beshaped by social and material processes, not by cognitivefiat as the drawing of the boundary was” (Barth 1999, 30).In this article we shall concentrate upon the connectionbetween the physical characteristics of the architecturallimits and the social processes which lead to dematerializationthat take place around them, following up caseslike: the transparent boundary, the use of the access andconceiving the building envelope as place.

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