threshold
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entry 12.
Aldo van Eyck sought to rethink the relationships between spaces.Not as isolated forms, but as a connection of them. Spaces between spaces. I’ve previously explored his text “Steps towards a configurative discipline”. He thought that architects should try and design thresholds rather than forms. resist the urge to divide, and give shape to what lies…
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entry 04.
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…
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