The Creative Potential of Urban Interstitial Spaces
The Creative Potential of Urban Interstitial Spaces

Author(s): Patricia Stan
Subject(s): Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Architecture
Published by: Universitatea de Arhitectură şi Urbanism »Ion Mincu«
Keywords: interstitial spaces; urban memory; architectural intervention; Bucharest urban fabric; context decoding;
Summary/Abstract: This paper argues that interstitial spaces can be considered a positive element with development potential for the urban structure, which can be activated through creative use based on the recovery of urban memory and traces of the past. The proposed approach highlights the multiple values of urban interstitial spaces, considering them analytically for innovative architectural interventions so as to maximise and capitalise on their ability to reinterpret the context and the urban past. Starting from observations on the old urban fabric in the central area of Bucharest, which possesses numerous examples of spaces resulting from the various historical transformations of urban form, the study presents a method for identifying interstices and discusses their creative valorisation through the integration of educational and cultural functions. My project – the Art and Design Education Centre – shows how the potential of interstitial spaces is taken up in the design process through the step-by-step decoding of the elements of the urban context.

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