LIMINAL SPACES : THE EERIE HOLLOWNESS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE
LIMINAL SPACES THE EERIE HOLLOWNESS OF MODERN ARCHITECTURE Liminal spaces are those weird, atmospheric, and sometimes eerie places, that look like the gateway to another realm. Most people can agree that the majority of photos that are the shared above have that special quality of being a bit “off”…and that “off-ness” is indeed what makes a liminal space, “liminal”. The word “liminal” can be defined as being a “threshold” which is “barely perceptible”. A threshold could be the ghostly space before completing a rite of passage, or the ambiguous space in which we transition into another form. Liminal spaces are perhaps, the unknowable, or unspeakable spaces that seem to be ever-present in our dreams. These are places in which appear real but because of their strange aura, we know for sure that they are indeed fictitious. WHY LIMINALITY? The reason why we are fascinated with these images of vacant, abandoned, and eerie locations is that, for the most part, they represent ...