In most architecture, the threshold is a line of command:
cross it, and you commit to being inside, to being out, to choosing a side.

what happens when a threshold doesn’t separate but soften?

//engawa

“a strip of decking, often finished in wood or bamboo, that exist between the periphery of the Japanese house and the garden, covered by the part of eaves that extend from the moya.” ¹

1. https://siujui.medium.com/a-study-on-engawa-evaluation-on-the-contemporary-learning-from-tradition-e2d1dc4727c0 ↩︎

engawa offers Not a moment, but a duration.
It doesn’t demand passage but It invites presence.

engawa doesn’t ask for arrival, nor departure.
it is a tool for being in between.