| Title |
A Study on 'Internalization of Street' in Contemporary Urban Architecture |
| Authors |
Jung Hye-Jin ; Shin Byang-Youn ; Kim Kwang-Hyun |
| Keywords |
Street ; Arcades ; Superimposition of the Interior and Exterior ; Privacy and Publicity |
| Abstract |
When modernity came into being in the 19th-century, the Paris Arcade was a commercial facility in a new style that spatially accommodated the social changes of mass production system and emergence of glass and steel frame technologies. Its transparent glass roof brought the urban streets into the architecture. That is, the institution contained the city in it without owning the physical exterior. The internalized streets invested behavioral elements into public spaces, the interior and exterior were reversed, and activity of the flaneur appeared as piles of fragmented programs. Today, modern cities are sprawling, and architectural programs, driven by expansion speed and carried by flows, are changing cities. Urban residents' dwellings take place in city space, and their activities get complicated into a variety of programs. Flexible programs make architecture and cities develop close relationships, moving beyond boundaries between the interior and the exterior and between privacy and publicity. Architecture is not an element that exists as figures against the background of a city any more, but it is superimposed on flows and programs, containing a city itself. Forms of architecture as the inside of physical boundaries fixed within such cities are being weakened, while placeness arbitrarily appear everywhere in cities. |