Spaces within spaces!

A space to exist should not be confused by what is called an enclosed space. Many Spaces can be created by just a single wall depending on how one designs the wall. For example : spaces can be created by folding a wall multiple times into one’s desired way. Somewhat similar I learnt in my class, I used a cardboard rectangular piece in the ratio 1:4 and used it as a wall. Then I started folding it and I just folded it into five folds without even realizing how the spaces were building side by side. This lead to the formation of three different spaces then I tried to place a pentagonal space which was again made by the folding of cardboard sheet.

The difference in both of the walls is interesting, because of how they are designed as the latter wall is creating only a single space by having three folds and the former wall has created three different spaces with five folds.

Walls act as borders sometimes, they can be complex or can be simple. The difference between both of them is how are the paths defined like, are they offering us choices or are they straight leading us to somewhere. For example : Ramparts are one of the walls acting as the border wall in the castles or forts for security. Certain animals have a tendency of making their territorial spaces like humans create borders(walls) and birds sing to mark their space. Borders, they divide, differentiate , marginalize and create spaces of different kinds. It can be a border between two cities, countries, caste and much more. So there are certain borders that exists in the space that we experience all through out our lives unconsciously. Curbs, picket fences, country borders are all borders. Even the pillows we keep in between ourselves on bed is one of the examples. Maybe there is some role of materiality that plays and portrays the nature of border. Curbs are the edges of the pavement alongside the roads that divides the pedestrian and road, it has rigidity in the material but acts as a subtle space only for pedestrians to walk. Picket fences act in a similar manner, they have a sort of transparency and as they are not too high, it can be a place for human interaction as well.

Walls can be placed by the juxtaposing them, it can be of different sizes, different shapes to create an interesting space. This is how walls are build within walls and similarly there is a similar idea behind the making of buildings within buildings.

Above you saw, how I worked with the representation of the plan but now moving a little further, I will work in section to demonstrate the same idea but in a different manner.