Gaston Bachelard's "The Poetics of Space" highlights architecture as a lived experience imbued with emotional significance. He emphasizes the importance of thresholds like windows and doors as liminal spaces, offering transition between the familiar and the unknown. This perspective encourages a sensitive architectural approach where boundaries facilitate imagination and desire. Contemporary design often dissolves indoor-outdoor divides, creating fluid spatial experiences that invite nature inside. However, this requires careful technical choices, particularly in the use of glazing, which helps articulate design intentions and enhances connections with the surrounding environment.
The window is not merely a functional opening, but a point of dreaming and contemplation: it is through the window that the inhabitant projects themselves into the world.
Dissolving these boundaries becomes a conscious strategy that enhances comfort, reinforces architectural identity, and strengthens the connection to the surroundings.
The dissolution of physical boundaries depends on precise technical and material decisions. Glazed elements have evolved from purely technical features to expressive resources within architectural language.
Framing specific views, the architect guides the gaze, establishes visual connections with the landscape or built environment, and intensifies the spatial experience.
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