Instead of
talking about inside and outside as divided elements, non-related spaces,
unequal parameters, I suggest a discussion about atmospheres. Seeing the change
in spaces, from inside to outside or outside to inside, as a change in
atmospheres by movement rather than a transition between actual, physical
spaces. The discussion about inside and outside seems no longer to be
challenged or relevant in a society where activities, happening, and habits
appear without the border created by the understanding of the division between
outer and inner. In a city so cultivated and organized, busy, the created
spaces constantly overlap and emerge, fluently interconnecting in a dynamic
movement and build, both in the concrete created structures and buildings as
well as in the individual’s experience by moving throughout the city, from
inside to outside to inside again. By talking about the build of atmospheres the
two different understandings start connecting in a similar language as a result
of the word being able to capture both the defined outside and sensed inside of
mind. The boundary in between dissolves and creates a fundament for a different
interpretation of the understanding of spaces and the transitions in relation
them.
In this
perspective the lobby as an architectural element is to be seen as the altering
medium in the build of atmospheres. A build of different parameters such as
acoustics, spaces, height, lightening, environment, materials, time – people –
feeling, mood, noise, sight, movement. A wide collection of materialistic and unmaterialistic
influences playing and interacting under the same overall conditions.
