What remains when the place is gone
What remains of a space when the place is gone? On the inner space: a spatial structure grown from early experience that accompanies us everywhere.
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Essays on the inner space
Texts on atmosphere, home and the inner space, drawn from the book INNERER RAUM.
How can I not be at home in a place where I am so at home?
We often only notice home when it begins to waver. On home as a web of memories, and on the traces hesitation leaves in a room.
Atmosphere arises between person and space
Atmosphere does not sit in the room alone. It arises in the encounter between person and space, from light, material and sound, and from the earlier experience we bring with us.
Reading rooms: what a home says about us
Rooms are never neutral. They mirror who we are. Learning to read your own home brings you closer to yourself.
The inscribed floor plan: how early rooms shape us
Early rooms inscribe themselves in us like a floor plan. We go on living along their lines until conscious questioning opens the cycle.
The possibility of coherence
Where designed space and inner space correspond, coherence becomes possible. An atmosphere that matches our self and strengthens us at the core.