STRUKTURA PRZESTRZENI MIESZKALNEJ A BYCIE-W-ŚWIECIE. PRZYPADEK KSIĘŻEGO MŁYNA
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2011-03-31
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Pracowania Humanistycznych Studiów Interdyscyplinarnych WFPiK UAM
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The structure of living space and Being-in-the-World. The example of Księży Młyn
Abstract
The subject of this work is a nineteenth-century working-class housing estate, Księży
Młyn, in Łódź. This research is geared to define how the architectural construction influences the
everyday life and mentality of its inhabitants (a research combines the disciplines of art history
and cultural anthropology). A specific connection between space and human psyche is visible in
Księży Młyn. Therefore, space of this housing estate might help to illustrate universal contents
concerned with the experience of living space.
This work brings up the issues of the relation between the regularity of architectural
structure and sense of direction and the ‘acquaintance’ of surroundings (the question about
border between safety and control). The important aspects of that relation are division of space
that involves the way of moving around (shaping human behaviors and habits), architecture`s
influence on the mental map of the place (places, institutions, actions evaluating), the connection
between open/closed space and its inhabitants thinking about the world (space and the idea of an
own place in the world, space and development of individuals). A methodological reflection in
this project – polemics with semiotic perspective for architecture (Andrzej Turowski) in relation
to existential concept of space (Christian Norberg-Schulz) – is also important.
As a comparative material this work exploits patron estates that were built in the same
time, Renaissances projects of perfect cities and other architectural projects that are similar to
Księży Młyn in formal or functional respect. This estate will also be compared with the lettriste
concept of living-space, far different from the one that occurs in the architecture of Księży Młyn.
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Księży Młyn, Osiedle, Panopticon, Regularność, Przestrzeń, Space, Regularity, Estate
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INTERLINIE. Interdyscyplinarne Czasopismo Internetowe, 1 (2) 2011, pp. 14-20.