Interiors in Public Spaces : The Inclusion of Domestic Activities Into Public Spaces
| dc.contributor.author | von Mioduski, Celine | |
| dc.contributor.department | bachelor thesis in Interior Architecture / Interior Design | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2022-01-07 | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2025-11-28T13:26:40Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2025-11-28T13:26:40Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2021 | |
| dc.description.abstract | MACHINE-GENERATED SUMMARY NOTE : The past decades have shown how cities - especially capital cities - are getting more crowded and residential homes more expensive, reducing people's habitats in size (European Union 2016, 95-97). Even though people's inside spaces get smaller, they still endure most of their activities in their homes. Activities are generally divided into multiple spaces: while some activities such as sports and socializing are done outside, most activities such as sleeping, cooking, eating, studying, and working are still bound to the inside spaces and are thus known as domestic activities (Teston 2020, 77). Domestic activities are related to the inside spaces and the sense of intimacy, protection, and privacy (Ottolini 2008,173). Interiors are the inside of something (Cambridge Dictionary 2021), and inside is the space created by an enclosure (Attiwill 2011, 217). However, if one understands the interior more as the relation of people with the space they inhabit, then the built fabric outside can be an interior as well (ibid, 223). Therefore, people's relations and perceptions of the interior can be challenged outside of the inside and outside the residential areas. The interior itself does not have to take place on the inside. To realize domestic and private activities outside the residential areas, public spaces seem to be especially suitable, as the nature of them is to host the activities of their inhabitants' (Attiwill and others2015,7). Still, public spaces that integrate the interior are rather the exception. To understand this a look on recent developments in cities might be helpful. In the last decades the public realm was transformed due to the privatization of spaces, industrialization, globalization, immigration into the cities, and digital technologies (Attiwill and others 2015, 5). Especially the technologies have significantly impacted public spaces and partly replaced nonvirtual public spaces with digital public realms enabled by the internet. Even though cities themselves are constantly evolving and adapting, shaped by people, culture, time, and other factors, two things can be stated. Firstly, the understanding of public space is evolving very slowly. Most people would still define public space as public sphere which is the platform for social and political exchange (Oxford Bibliographies 2021). Secondly - and this might be related to the latter -, public space has not adapted to the new wishes and needs of the 21st-century (Koch and Latham 2013, 19). To include domestic activities - integrate the interior - in the urban landscape, one has to consider how one person interacts with space. As interior architecture is a discipline that focuses on the individuals, it does exactly this: it takes into account how a person inhabits places by considering their physical and psychological habitation (Attiwill 2011,218). Therefore, this thesis will explore how interior architecture itself can inform urban public spaces to include domestic activities. Interior, private, and domestic are three concepts that are mainly put in relation to one another. These are mainly perceived as inside residential characteristics. This thesis will evaluate how their boundaries can be challenged into the public realm by looking into each concept and its antonym. Therefore, interior and exterior, private and public, and domestic and urban will be analyzed. The theoretical framework is backed up by a research methodology based on literature review and case studies | en |
| dc.description.degree | BA | |
| dc.description.tableofcontents | MACHINE-GENERATED CONTENTS NOTE : 1 Introduction 02 2 Interior and Exterior 2.1 Space: Interior and Exterior 04 2.2 Concepts of Interior 07 3 Private and Public 3.1 Public Space: Historical Shifts and Challenges 11 3.2 Private and Privacy in Public Spaces 15 4 Domesticity in Urban Voids 4.1 Domesticity in Public Spaces 19 4.2 Urban Voids as a Solution to offer Perspective 23 5 Reactivate Urban Void in Berlin 6 Conclusion References List of Figures | en |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://repository.berlin-international.de/handle/123456789/662 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | |
| dc.subject | Adaptive reuse | |
| dc.subject | Public spaces | |
| dc.subject | Spaces for living | |
| dc.title | Interiors in Public Spaces : The Inclusion of Domestic Activities Into Public Spaces | |
| dc.type | Thesis |
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