A short account of three millennia of entrances.

Master thesis, Pr. Kersten Geers (Office KGDVS) and Andrea Zanderigo (Baukuh).

With the primitive hut (whatever form it may have taken), human beings invented the two notions that are interior  and exterior . Then suddenly, a tension between the two appeared. Architects began to think about the importance of entering; and what had been a surface became a space, neither inside nor outside, a third space. Architecture has always been the play of passages, strong thresholds or imperceptible transitions, from the outside towards the inside. The control of this space ends up as an architectural strategy in its own right. The entrance is thinking as a set of emotional deeds that has the ability to enhance the experience of the inner space. The entrance acts as foreplay. While entrances took specific forms, architects used them in order to represent the building and the institution or person behind.

Intrigued by this theme, I chose to investigate the different forms of entrances in the history of architecture. The aim of this account is to relate their evolution through an anthology.

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