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The word liminal originates from Latin and translates roughly to threshold, it points to the ambiguous and unstable condition of being in the process of change. A process in which one has left its original state or location, and have not yet occupied its destination. Liminal space is a place that one inhabits as a point on a journey, transformation, passage or a ceremonial change. Although liminal space and small-space are not synonyms, they do share some common attributes. The paper focuses on exploring architectural spaces that are small in relationship to the human body, spaces that by their smallness exaggerate their peculiarity as liminal. This exaggeration, sometimes to the point of ridicule, is uniquely exposed and manipulated in movies. Architectural liminal Small-spaces and the way they are represented, used, and interpreted in movies is the subject matter of this paper. The question the paper examines is how do movies use and manipulate small\liminal architectural spaces? And for what ends? Consequentially a more specific question was posed: what then, if any, are the consequences to architecture of this filmic experimentation with space?
Keywords: Architecture, Movies, Liminal space.
Introduction
The word liminal originates from Latin and translates roughly to threshold, it points to the ambiguous and unstable condition of being in the process of change. A process in which one has left its original state or location, and have not yet occupied its destination. Liminal space is a place that one inhabits as a point on a journey, transformation, passage or a ceremonial change. Although liminal space and small-space are not synonyms, they do share some common attributes. The paper focuses on exploring architectural spaces that are small in relationship to the human body, spaces that by their smallness exaggerate their peculiarity as liminal. This exaggeration, sometimes to the point of ridicule, is uniquely exposed and manipulated in movies. Architectural liminal Small-spaces and the way they are represented, used, and interpreted in movies is the subject matter of this paper. The question the paper examines is how do movies use and manipulate small\liminal architectural spaces? And for what ends? Consequentially a more specific question was posed: what then, if any, are the consequences to architecture of this filmic experimentation with space?
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