The changing room: Towards an interior multiplicity

Architecture as a projection of multiplicities

“…The discussion regarding multiplicities in architectural discourse aims to establish the alternating and open, pluralistic view regarding spatial meaning, experience, and practices. Reading architecture through the lens of multiplicities avoids the tendency to fixate and formalise; instead, it yearns for variety, incompletion, and relativity of space (Abudayyeh, 2021;Amin, 2008;Sennett, 2019). Discussion of the multiplicity of architecture can focus on how it is being shaped, for example, due to the opposing contextual forces that create different emergences of architecture (Lukasz & Kaminer, 2007).…”

“…Discussion of the multiplicity of architecture can focus on how it is being shaped, for example, due to the opposing contextual forces that create different emergences of architecture (Lukasz & Kaminer, 2007). Another discussion of multiplicity refers to the condition where various spatial configurations and temporal occupations are happening in a multilayered way (Abudayyeh, 2021;Deleuze & Guattari, 1987). This edition aims to dwell on multiplicities as an essential concept that drives distinct exploration of architectural design methods.…”

“…The operating mechanism of multiplicity has been discussed interchangeably with the notion of flexibility, despite some significant differences (Abudayyeh, 2021). Operating spatial multiplicity values different layers of spatial functions and components in one particular time, while flexibility adheres to one function of space, which then alternates into another over time (Abudayyeh, 2021;Lukasz & Kaminer, 2007).…”

“…The operating mechanism of multiplicity has been discussed interchangeably with the notion of flexibility, despite some significant differences (Abudayyeh, 2021). Operating spatial multiplicity values different layers of spatial functions and components in one particular time, while flexibility adheres to one function of space, which then alternates into another over time (Abudayyeh, 2021;Lukasz & Kaminer, 2007). However, instead of dwelling on such disparity, some principles of flexibility may inform the spatial operation of multiplicity further especially in the way it aims to resist functionalism (Forty, 2004).…”