I hope my metaphor is not referenced with the Aerosmith rendition; I wouldn't want it to be considered a satire. Yet for me it does show the domain issue with the metaphor; in the sense that once assimilated outside of linguistics whether perceptually, artistically or spatially the context of the metaphor completely dissolves to the issue of scale and materiality, and more importantly to time and space.
Allow me to explain myself(Ironically enough through linguistics and metaphors) see Comments.
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Living on the edge can be understood with the condition of a threshold; your living on the edge, you’re at the edge, you’re at the brink of something etc. where then the gesture of the edge takes on an entirely new understanding then just the physical causality of an edge. Rather the edge as a threshold is a boundary condition, the framework in which the mind perceives. These are all conditions we discussed in class.
Then to the context of the site; the edge condition is now purely spatial the gesture by its understanding becomes the condition of two domains, volumes or planes intersecting. The EDGE is the LINE. The most simple of architectural gestures both in 2d and 3d; the edge is rendered as the condition of a line. The line may define two or more spaces or may be a space in itself. I am in search to capture an edge, the defining gesture of space in time. Its dialects may be that of unlike materials in cohesion, the volume within two solids, or the wound or crack in a single surface that intern creates two. If anyone is interested comment I would love to continue the discussion.
(I will post some sketches to visualize this linguistical material, or else all I will ever have is a metaphor)
please post so we can clarify your metaphor. the edge is also a plane. the edge is what we build as architects. we build edges to contain space, to define the character of a space. we cant build space, but we can build edges to define it.
I understand but we define the edge to classify space at the "middle world" (Dawkins). We don't percieve it but the edge is a space itself, it can be penetrated if understood at that scale. To some extent aren't these movies, installations and metaphors all tapping into the metaphysical component of the minds perception. Just in the relative truths of science conditions can be understood within another demension.
If thats true than one could active the space and time of the edge to invoke the perception of its metaphysical time and space. The edge as you speak of it in materiality and architecture is actually constructed of space, without it the constructs of the material would not have space to expand and contract and function as the mediation of two material "planes".
I know its minimal possibly abstract; but if i can udnerstand the physical causality of the metaphor of an edge, than i can begin to understand its perception and how to intern manipulate that perception through cinema and installation.
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