Rhythmical Topography: Kinetic Interactive Architecture
Daily Impressions
The rhythm of our daily lives typically takes place according to a certain cycle. With the repeated cycles ranging from 24 hours to a week and up to a month and a year, our everyday life unfolds within a recurring time frame. Throughout history, architecture, the container of our lifestyles, has transformed concepts of space according to the changing concepts of time. In particular, the cycle remains as it was in the space of architecture. While religious architecture, such as a cathedral, came to invent the rose window and clerestory, creating a sacred atmosphere from daylight, ordinary architecture made spatial structures suitable for farming and hunting.
Compression of Time-Space
‘Social time and social space are compressed’, said David Harvey. Modes of transportation, such as a train, have expanded our spatial horizons
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