Journal of the Architectural Institute of Korea Planning & Design (대한건축학회논문집:계획계)

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A Theoretical Study on the Form of Continuity as an Architectural Principle - Focused on the continuity between architectural space and urban space and between yesterday and tomorrow -

건축의 원리로서 연속성의 형태에 관한 이론적 고찰 - 실내와 시내 사이 그리고 과거와 미래 사이 연속성을 중심으로 -

  • Kim, Myungshig (Department of Architecture, Chungbuk National University)
  • Received : 2016.05.27
  • Accepted : 2016.07.25
  • Published : 2016.08.30
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Abstract

Architectural space and urban space can be integrated as a single concept of continuity. The two different and heterogeneous realities of spaces communicate with each other in a way that architecture connects both. The building form is articulated by the rapports and the resonance between them to provide human being with a private and public life-world. It is also articulated between the past, the present, and the future because it gains a figure as a revelation about the form of space and simultaneously the shape of time. It consists in a twofold form that discloses a physical connection between inside and outside, and a nonphysical connection between yesterday and tomorrow. There exists the spatial and temporal continuity as one of architectural principles. The paper theoretically explores, through literature review, the form of continuity between spaces, and times in order to establish its basis. The first site investigates the continuum of space that architecture makes its interior to connect with exterior. The second site gives an account of the continuity of the matter-forms and the continuum of the spatial forms in a way which architecture is understood by the sequential perception and experience. The third site deals with the significant nonphysical continuity in the shape of time, for architecture exposes the continued form imprinted by the course of history or its discontinuity. The paper clarifies the physical, spatial form of continuity between architectural space and urban space, the cognition on the form and space by the continued perception and experience, and the nonphysical, temporal continuity inherent in architecture. It comes to the conclusion that the form of continuity (both nonphysical and physical) ought to be considered as a significant design principle in the professional field of architecture. Ultimately, the paper aims at establishing and offering a theoretical basis on the form of continuity as a architectural principle.

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