Architecture has many faces: explorative, didactic, ambiguous, rational, autonomous, participatory, narrative. But what happens when one strays from an architecture’s planned moments, and something is revealed that wasn’t intended?
Is this the fertile detail? A detail that allows one to manipulate its meaning and function, to transcend its purpose, to become something more. A detail which grows with interaction and time. This seems like it would be more accidental than intentional, but wouldn’t it be possible to intend for someone else to expand on your own meaning? To give ownership to the one interacting with the architecture? How can one open up details, instead of constraining their purposes and stories?
So, maybe it isn’t only about what a detail can tell us, but what we can tell a detail. If architecture can be transcended, it becomes something more, more than a building. It becomes a metaphor, filled with meaning. Boundaries become openings to a world filled with wonder. Or a way to trip someone.
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