Architecture essays

The dwelling and the dweller. Towards an epistemology of interiority

Principal author

Daniela Negrișanu

Profession

Arhitect

Project description

As an excerpt of a bigger study, this text is evaluating the dwelling as a process, using the interiority as an analytical anchor. Architectural theory and practice are often criticized for its stereotypical image of the habitation as an exogenous object, eluding what interiority has to offer. Centering the act of dwelling on the human subject, there can be revealed a complex dialogism between the two, disclosing a deeper individual reality, emphasized by each other’s co presence. Residential homeostasis, as the internal state of balance, is a tool of intercepting this fascinating relationship. Gathering all internal regulation processes, it seeks internal balance for individual and residential group, adjusting in the same time the residential shell, through the inside/ outside osmosis. On a temporal level, the adjustment between past, present and future and between family dynamics correlates expectations with residential ideal, bringing them in harmony with what present has to offer.

Text description of the author

Becoming an architect in Architecture Faculty from Politehnica University of Timișoara, Daniela Negrișanu followed in the same faculty the master entitled ”Restructuring the ambient and historical buildings”. Afterwards, the PhD in Architecture centered the author's study around dwelling theme, choosing the subject ”The dwelling as family's introjection”. In present, the architect is practicing her profession inside RD Sign company, founded together with Răzvan Negrișanu. In parallel with professional carrier, Daniela Negrișanu is an associated academic member in Architecture Faculty in Timișoara, at Dwelling Project Design of the second year courses.

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