Spatium 2020 Issue 43, Pages: 35-43
https://doi.org/10.2298/SPAT2043035J
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Fluid spaces in a contemporary urban context: Questioning the boundary between architecture and infrastructure
Jerković-Babović Bojana (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)
Rakonjac Ivana (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)
Furundžić Danilo (Faculty of Architecture, University of Belgrade, Belgrade, Serbia)
The aim of this paper is to research the relations between the contemporary
networked context and transformations in the understanding of architectural
and infrastructural spaces, and to research the main models of fluidity
within this relation. The contemporary urban context is characterized by
globalization, transculturalism and increased technological development,
which simultaneously change the everydayness, usage and perception of urban
spaces and architecture. New networking phenomena occurring on
informational, communicational and spatial levels transform the city and its
architecture into constant processes of flows. Fluidity is positioned as the
main problem of this research, simultaneously causing, and manifesting in,
transformations of contemporary spatial conditions where the notion of flow
becomes the new spatial quality. This research is focused on one of the main
spatial manifestations of the fluidity phenomenon in contemporary cities -
the dispersion of the boundary between architectural and infrastructural
space. The aim of the paper is to present the idea that fluid spaces are
characterized by: 1) increased loss of disciplinary boundaries; 2) loss of
physical boundaries - inner-outer space overlapping; 3) dispersion of
perceptual boundaries in space. The research is significant because it
defines new meanings of spaces of flows and movement in a contemporary urban
context.
Keywords: fluidity, flow, architecture, infrastructure, boundary
Project of the Serbian Ministry of Education, Science and Technological Development, Grant no. TR36034: Research and systematization of housing development in
Serbia in the context of globalization and European integrations for the
purpose of improving housing quality and standards