#8 Sequences

Sequences between building and urban space
The theme of this issue of Time-based Architecture focuses specifically on those circular time-based activities in the area between public and private domain. The façade for instance, in the interior of the city defines the transitional spaces, boundaries, borders, thresholds and interaction points between public, semi- public and private domains as a sequence of experience.

As a result we can consider this issue to be an attempt to examine and study the sequence of, mainly in-between, spaces between buildings and the city. To clarify this idea, we can refer to a dweller that needs a certain distance from the surroundings for reasons of privacy. The building is also a place to retreat to from the public and to protect you from outside danger and climate. It is a delicate process of design between private and public to which a building has to give shape. To have a better understanding of the relation between building and urban space, we will give a short overview of the development of the urban space.

The projects
MVRDV, The Rotterdam Market hall

Kamran Diba & Associates, Shushtar New Town,

Geurst & Schulz, Le medi, in Rotterdam

The Morphosis social Housing project in Madrid

The Mountain, dwellings project, located in Copenhagen,g garage.

Guest Editor: Mohamad Sedighi