Human Experience from the Interior
“Socially, [focusing on the interior] can can enrich community life and the sensorial experience of citizens who discover relatively undetermined spaces ready for them to appropriate in creative ways (Abalos, 2014).”
Abalos challenges our way of thinking by analyzing archetypes in a way that begins to describe architecture in terms of the human experience. Currently, architecture is expressed through the envelope. However, as Abalos suggests, the interior ought to resolve the project with an envelope. By understanding the interior space, one can design the exterior more effectively.
By conferring the interior space to the envelope at all stages of design; schematic, program, and design, the architect is able to think holistically about the impact of the built form on the human. Architecture is for people, and to devoid the design of that condition is to rob the profound effect architecture can play in our lives and the lives of others. This isn't to say that the architect should define every space in a static way, but they should allow for disruptive continuity within the interior environment.
Coventry University, Faculty of Engineering and Computing /Arup Associates:
A form of designed "free-space": Disruptive Continuity
Envelope relates to interior functions
I like your post but the idea of experiential architecture is not a new one. Abalos is simply reminding us of (in my opinion) one of the best ways to approach architecture. Thinking about the user and its experience within space. I do think that both the interior and exterior should inform each other and depending on the project one may "confer" more to the other one. Yet I don't think one should be more important that the other. The whole idea of a holistic approach is finding every element's strengths and weaknesses to work together.
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