INTERIOR CITY-MAKING
Apr 04, 2022
4 minutes
Because of their long history of differentiations, the terms ‘interior’ and ‘city’ seem on the surface to contradict each other. To paint the clearest dichotomy, interiors are roofed over and artificially lit and the city is open to the sky and elements. Despite these polarities, many grey areas exist: unconditioned building cores, canopied plazas, and subterranean urban zones are just a few of the spatial settings that blur the boundary between city and interior.
How then should we describe these often-converging architectural domains? We could turn to the term ‘Interior Urbanism’, but it has emerged as an ‘ism’, synonymous with expansive
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