Title: Invisible Resilience: Interiority of Body and Architecture
Stream: Culture and Heritage
Presentation Type: Oral Presentation
Authors:
Amos Bar-Eli, HIT - Holon Institute of Technology, Israel
Abstract:
COVID-19 is by no means the first epidemic that storms through the human population. The presence of mysterious, unpredictable, paralyzing health concerns is actually determinate of the way we understand and create architecture. It is very much so in the way interiority of architecture, with its obsessive emphasis on space and function, became prominent during the previous century. Architecture shifted its focus from exteriority to interiority, from protection against exterior elements to safeguarding from interior, invisible, hazards. Primary, among which, are: the internal body (skeleton), the microscopic (cell), and the subconsciousness (brain). These 20th-century central paradigms, closely associated with health and health-related technology, continue to evolve today. The paper exposes the body's internal and invisible elements that establish a path for understanding the interior (of) architecture. It explores the way design preferences for transparent, simple, and light, are highly concerned with health and technology. The paper explores the emerging roots of this phenomenon within the Modern movement and proceeds to show its relevance for contemporary design. It claims that resilience of the body in face of health concerns has much to do with how interior architecture is theorized and designed. It takes an associative and anecdotal, rather than linear, journey through historical and contemporary case studies strengthened by examples from the art world, in an attempt to shed light on the phenomena.
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