Research

Astrid Constant

I found an article about a holiday bungalow design by Constant that is designed to maximise the holiday experience and "blur the limits of the inside and outside world, lying somewhere inbetween".

To me this makes an interesting concept with relation to porosity as it simulates one of the aims of porosity yet on another plain. Some aspects from this concept might be of good use in the work on porosity if the ideas can be transferred.

Link

Another article on her page wasabout an Ecotourism Hotel in Cambodia. When looking over this article I noticed that the buildigns all resembled that of traditional Cambodia, which gave the impresion of a space that was fabricated recently for tourists to live in, however gave the impression of an ancient building. Again maybe this idea of illusion can be transferred to the work on porosity to where a borderline is blurred.

Architecture could be abstracted in an illusive manner thereby removing the explicit labelling of public and private spaces, an thus creating new and interesting forms of public space.