Bouwndary: Experience of space

Today we are experiencing the crisis of the territory. Everything goes fast and consequently it is increasingly difficult for planners to govern the new phenomena of the city. Architects have the important role of trying to solve urban issues through the architectural project, whether it is a building, a square, or even just a seat. It is...

Betweenness: Tangible & Intangible boundaries for formulating a complex estate landscape in Gelders Arcadie

Connection and separation, or synthesis and dissolution, to draw on Georg Simmel’s expression, are each the precondition of the other. It lightens me to rethink the core of boundary. In the estate landscape of Veluwe Zoom, the elites and noble use flowing water, shrubs, walls, fences to declare their own territory and maintain bridge, passage to...

The Curtains: On the Private-Public Street Boundary

Probing into the parameters of a ‘wall’, this project seeks to empower the boundary wall in reactivating street life along the private-public street boundary, where front-yards were originally planned but now missing. In Teusaquillo of Bogota, people have regretfully took ‘walls’ as mere devices to define territories. Yet, there are latent...

A study into how the relationship between public and private spaces in the built environment influence the social and cultural aspects of the community

Architects have always found it important to understand the interaction between public and private spaces in the context of the built environment. This paper investigates the relationship between public and private spaces, and how it influences the social and cultural aspects of the built environment. Hence, we first explore what a public and...

Thickening the threshold: Public spaces for encounter in the entry squares of Universidad Nacional de Colombia.

In September 2018 I have traveled to Bogota - the capital of Colombia with a group of Methods & Analysis students and teachers. During the trip to Bogota I have repeatedly visited the campus of Universidad Nacional de Colombia – a national higher education institution. What stayed with me the most after these visits were...