DOI: 10.5176/2301-394X_ACE14.27
Authors: Myungshig Kim
Abstract:
Building interiors and urban interiors are considered as a single concept: “architecture and urbanism in everything;” “the outside is always an inside” (Le Corbusier, 1929). Rooms, buildings, urban places, and urban fabrics are thus related to the same system of meanings. Architecture is coming out of the making of an interior, a room. Urbanism begins by making an interior felt as a sense of rapport and an undeniable inner demand for a presence: a street – “a community room by agreement” (Kahn, 1971) – and a square – an open aesthetic room by agreement of community. Urban interior is an extension of the conception of interior architecture that contains our life-world in the city as much as building interior contains our private life-world. This article explores the destroyed, unbecoming urban interior of the Campidoglio (Capitoline Hill, Rome) and the reincarnated genius loci through the documentation and the brilliant design of Michelangelo. The first site this article traces is the disappeared meanings of the hill. The second site this article investigates is the materializing of the Campidoglio’s broken genius loci. The last site this article explores is the contextual rationale of urban interior design through Michelangelo’s substantiated design. This ramble through the Campidoglio as an urban interior will be used to seek possible principles for urban interior design.
Keywords: genius loci; urban place and interior design
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