Some Reflections on Architectural Projects Seeking for Spatial Emancipation

Spatial emancipation can be considered as an architectural meta-project, namely, endeavors have made by designers to overcome traditional boundaries of space so as to achieve much more continuity and fluidity in architectural space. Although these efforts has long lasting history, after modern period thanks to the remarkable advancement in technology regarding structure of the buildings, significant architectural projects has been developed in line with this general approach. Nonetheless, reflection on these projects and their contribution to spatial emancipation as a general approach and interrelation of these projects in a historical evolutionary process has remained disregarded. Thus, this qualitative documentary study tried to bring forward significant architectural projects after modern period each of which obtain a significant achievement in liberating space from imposed traditional boundaries and also cast a light on their interrelations in a historical evolutionary process. The required data has been collected by literature survey and document analysis and the collected data has been analyzed through descriptive-analytic method. The findings illustrated that, Free Plan accompanying with Open Plan, Free Section and boundless space are three major architectural projects which not only has significant contribution to spatial emancipation as a general approach, but also there is a meaningful and didactic interrelations between them in a historical evolutionary process.

Keywords:

Spatial Emancipation , Architectural Project , Free plan , Free section , Boundless Space