The Articulations of the In-between Realm in Sardinia

At the base of the reflection developed in this research work, there is the concept of habitat as a system, as an articulated “whole” that cannot be explained with the simple sum of its parts. The concept of habitat, in fact, implies issues of dialectic spaces, in other words, those settings that can be defined as relational subsystems within the urban/domestic scale. This essay has its roots in the CIAM (Congrès International d'Architecture Moderne (in English: International Congress of Modern Architecture)) of 1953, during which the complementarity of the outside space next to the dwelling and its relevance within the project discipline, have been affirmed. In particular, assimilating the lesson of Aldo van Eyck, this work investigates the deepest issues of the concept of threshold. The analysis makes use of the work-tools of critical reading and comparison between urban and rural habitats, with different density levels, whose relational fabrics have been layering over time permeable “thicknesses” which articulate complex threshold spatial configurations.