Thursday, September 27, 2012



Enclosed nature

           Have you ever question about your space? We always walk from one space to another. Our everyday life starts when you wake up inside your bedroom. Open the door and go outside. Then reach your destination by going inside something again, Human always define the boundaries to separate one space with another space by draw the line and go inside it. And when we cross those boundaries, we are outside those spaces but inside another space. That happen in everywhere in the earth that you can go. You are inside your home your home locates inside the city your city is inside your country. However, that is the boundaries that you cannot see. But after we define boundaries that belong to us we physically build something on that space. Now it changes, now we can see those boundaries. And those physical boundaries change our experience. But why we needed to contain ourselves inside that space?
            What human different from other species is how we live in this world. We not only live in this world, we also have technologies to use the materials to build our world and live inside it. From shed to condominium, from market to shopping mall, from factory to office building but our buildings and architecture have one common experience, the experience of being contain by something. We will discover the component of this experience through the basic needed of our life, home. We may control the animal to work for us, control RAW material to made and construct something. But there is one thing that we never reach it until now, the sky.  Since some activity of the earth are not good for living thing. Some find some landscape to cover their head from the rain, some adapt the land scape to keep them worm in the winter, and some have ability to hibernate. First generation of us also lives in the cave, but the evolution give us powerful ability, the ability to build it up by ourselves. And we start to frame the nature though the building. We Build wall to protect us from danger, we build roof for protect our head from sun, rain and snow. Finally we create the container for ourselves. Then we construct the experience of being inside and realize that we cannot live in that enclosed container. Our eyes useless without light, our body can’t breathe in fully enclosed space these maybe the reason behind the experience of inside and the reason why we feel better when we going out of those container and breath the fresh air, feel the breeze and contact with sunlight. We develop our building environment by added those elements back to our container. We invent light bulb to generate artificial sunlight, we invent fan to generate breeze and we invent air condition for control the temperature. These elements regenerate quality of nature inside our container.
                Process of regeneration reconnect our container to the nature, blur the boundaries of inside outside and become the experience of each interior. And the key of experience of outside are not only going out of the container, but it about how the nature interacts with us and how we feel the changing of the world. The experience of outside can’t be recreate unless we accept the change of nature inside our container. But millions of new experience can be create by combination of those elements. And the new experience can be found on the boundary of inside outside.

by
 Shane Viruth Purichanont

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