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Interiority: At The Threshold, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Yandi Andri Yatmo
Interiority: At The Threshold, Paramita Atmodiwirjo, Yandi Andri Yatmo
Interiority
Being at the threshold offers an ambiguous spatial experience. The idea of threshold is relevant to the discourse of interiority, as it expands our understanding of the opposing condition of inside-outside, or interior-exterior, which have become the recurring themes in many discussions on interiority. This issue of Interiority attempts to address what actually occurs at the threshold – the occupation and the experience of the threshold. The contributors in this issue address the emergence of spatial ideas that define the new relationship between inside and outside, between interior and architecture.
House, Street, City: Le Corbusier’S Research Towards A New Urban Interior, Patrizio M. Martinelli
House, Street, City: Le Corbusier’S Research Towards A New Urban Interior, Patrizio M. Martinelli
Interiority
Le Corbusier’s investigations, conducted between the 1910s and the 1930s, were focused on a new relationship between street and building. This research started from texts about the city, in particular, the writings of Eugène Hénard’s. These essays, dating back to 1903-1909, dealt with the necessity of a renewed strategy for the urban street, breaking down the monotony and the problems related to the sequence of buildings and creating a series of places as squares, gardens, and open courtyards: actual urban rooms between streets an buildings. Learning from those texts, Le Corbusier worked on a series of polemical writings about the …