Inhabiting Liminal Spaces; Learning from Walden 7; Studies; Spatial reflections in the context of architecture and digital media based on the studies of Walden 7.
The influence of visual culture, which is an inseparable element of digital media, has a significant impact on society’s perception of the real world. Living in times when we are unable to define the border between „offline” and „online”, we are constantly suspended in a kind of liminal state. The use of digital technologies is a passage into another dimension, giving the possibilities to access a different reality. A reality which is abstract and distant, equally labyrinthine and obsessive; unstable in real time.
Inhabiting Liminal Spaces aims to investigate the notion of domesticity in relation to the digital environment. Starting from the analysis of the spatial qualities of Walden 7; a residential building designed by Ricardo Bofill (Barcelona), the work is based in several graphical and design-driven experiments to explore the possibilities of inhabiting liminal space(s). The project consists of spatial reflections in the context of architecture and digital media, supported by a method of collage. Within the process of deconstruction, manipulation and reconstruction, the image gives different possibilities of perceiving space. The collage becomes not only the method of representing or experiencing space, but also evolves into a design method which allows for a translation the complexity of the liminality. In Inhabiting Liminal Spaces, architecture is used as a medium for understanding the space through discovering and representing its spatial features. It is not intended to solve problems or offer solutions, but rather to propose a different perspective on the notion of liminal spaces as well as the importance of those spaces in the urban fabric.