Open AccessA Live Interior: Environments, Assemblies, Materialities
Author(s) -
Ulrika Karlsson,
Cecilia Lundbäck,
Daniel Norell,
Einar Rodhe,
Veronica Skeppe
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
athens journal of architecture
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
ISSN - 2407-9472
DOI - 10.30958/aja.7-4-3
Subject(s) - representation (politics) , relation (database) , reading (process) , apartment , interior design , visual arts , architectural engineering , architectural drawing , aesthetics , computer science , art , engineering , architecture , politics , civil engineering , linguistics , philosophy , database , political science , law
This paper examines the interior as a condition that is continuously in production through the arrangement of objects and furniture. This is done along two lines of inquiry. First by examining a few different historical and contemporary conceptions of the domestic interior through the lens of architectural representation. Second by using the technique of laser scanning to document a number of inhabited interiors in two apartment buildings. Through a series of representations, or cloud drawings, produced from the scans, the paper presents three ways of reading the interior: as environments, as assemblies, and as materialities. Departing from Robin Evans’ writing on drawing techniques for representing the interior and their correlation to ways of inhabitation, the paper poses questions around how the understanding of the interior may shift when using emerging techniques for architectural representation. Through readings of Walter Benjamin as well as Sylvia Lavin, the paper discusses such shifts in relation to changes in the conception of the interior and the objects that it contains.