ro | en
ArgumentNo. 12/2020

The Cycle of Influences between the Container Space and the Content Space

https://doi.org/10.54508/Argument.12.15

  • / urb. stud., „Ion Mincu” University of Architecture and Urbanism, Bucharest, RO

Abstract

The context of the built space, owner of influences towards the future space, represents, actually, its starting point, fact which imposes a balance between the new object and its place of location. This balance, constituted by compromise, appears by harmonizing the building to the context or, by a reverse influence, by harmonizing the context to the new reality imposed by the object.

Harmonizing the built space with the context and, especially, the reverse modality by which the space modifies through introducing of a new element in it, were for a long time ignored, beginning with the modern period, without taking into account the continuous process of transformation through which the space passes.

The present article aims to explain the process by which the existing context imposes a series of characteristics to the new urban developments or architecture objects and, afterwards, to outline the manner through which the process of conditioning becomes a reverse one, from the object to the context, leading thus to a cycle of influences, in a dynamic manner. For that, an analysis of the modality of understanding of the context in different historical periods and by different specialists was realised, as well as an analysis of the modality in which it interacts, or not, with a new built space, being offered examples of such influences and interactions. Thus, the relationship between those two is, as we will see, one which imposes a continuous change, and those two should be understood in a systemic manner, like a unitary whole.

Keywords

context, content, container, reverse influence, regeneration

Download