David Seamon Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling: The Contributions of Thomas Thiis-Evensen and Christopher Alexander In "Building Dwelling Thinking,” phenomenological philosopher Martin Heidegger discusses the notion of dwelling and contends that “only if we are capable of dwelling, only then can we build” (BWD, p. 47). A major problem with dwelling as an idea is its lack of specificity, particularly in terms of design significance. This article argues that the work of two architects - Thomas Thiis-Evensen and Christopher Alexander - indicates important but different ways in which Heidegger's dwelling can be trans- lated into more grounded architectural meaning. Thiis-Evensen and Alex- ander's ideas, placed in a Heideggerian framework, point toward a way of thinking that might lead to the kind of dwelling-building relationship suggested by Heidegger when he writes that “to build is already to dwell” (ibid, p. 33). Dwelling and building In “Building Dwelling Thinking,” Heidegger's major means of investigation is etymological: what is the word history of “to build” (“boven and its links to dwelling? Bauen, says Heidegger, relates to nearness and neigh- borliness and aso implies “to cherish and protect’, “to preserve and core for" {ibid., pp. 33 - 34). Bauen atso relates to the old High German word for building, “baun,” which means “to dwell” in the sense of remaining or staying in place. in emphasizing this link to place, Heidegger suggests that building relates to dwelling, which therefore can be said to involve a sense of continuity, community, and at-homeness (Harries 1983). The crux of dwelling, Heidegger argues, is sparing and preserving - the kindly concern for land, things, creatures, and people as they are and as they can become (ibid, p. 149; Zimmerman 1983). As human beings, we cannot fail to dwell, for dwelling, ultimately, is the essential existential core of human being-in-the-world from which there is no escape. At the same time, dwelling is just as much a means as an end. There wilt always be a certain 189David Seamcn —__ tension, a kind of imperfection, between what we wish, do, and make The significant questions are how do we dwell in our own particular situatio ° and how can we shape the quality of our dwelling for better or ing Heidegger links the quality of our dwelling to the quality of our built na since an effective building arises from a genuine sense of sparing ani Preserving (see Foltz 1995, pp. 159 - 63). the Heidegger also argues that, in practical terms, dwelling involves the a ering of the fourfold - the coming together of earth, sky, people, and Sense of spiritual reverence, or “the gods,” as he signifies higher realities (ibid). In this sense, dwelling is no mere extension of existential space OF Place; rather, “it becomes itself the fundamental human activity, in the light of which both place and space find their first clarification” Jager 1983, p. 154). As Heidegger interprets dwelling, the built environment is Crucial because it Supports and reflects a person and group's way of ne ing-in-the-world, The built environment is a certain embodied grasp 0 the world, a particular way of taking up the body and the world, a specific Orientation disclosing certain aspects of a worldly horizon (ibid., pp. 154 - 155). The world in which we find ourselves completes us in what we are, and therefore the Specific nature of the built environment becomes cru- cial. In other words, people are immersed in their world, and this immer- Sion is qualitative, subtie - in Many ways, ineffable. Thus a walk through a well-tended garden evokes a different state of being than a similar walk through an uncared-for garden or an Unsightly vacant lot. Similarly, en- tering a church evokes a different human stance than entering a night- club or a shopping mall or an empty street or a street filled with human activity. One aim for aim for architects is to become sensitive to these SO, therefore, is building. His explication of why we dwell less fully today is complicated; he Suggests that, in part, it is because we manipulate and demand from our world rather than meet it an attitude of sparing and preserving - i. e, allowing it to be and become. In this sense, a key to dwelling is letting ourselves and the world be, and this letting-be includes the ways we build, See, understand, and think. It is this need for letting-be in designing and understanding that marks the value of Thiis-Evensen and Alexander's work for a deeper, more grounded, understanding of dwelling. Both architects seek concrete means for identifying and describing built qualities that sustain and Strengthen the quality of dwelling. Through evoking one style of Sparing and Preserving, Thiis-Evensen and Alexander 190Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling provide ways to see and think more clearly, which, in turn, might tead to better designing and building. A phenomenology of architectural form Norwegian architect Thomas Thiis-Evensen’s Archetypes in Architecture goes far in developing a language of architectural elements as they have relation to dwelling (Thiis-Evensen 1987).' Thiis-Evensen's aim is to un- derstand “the universality of architectural expression” (ibid., P- 8). His vehicle is what he calls architectural archetypes—"the most basic elements of architecture,” which for Thiis-Evensen can be identified as the floor, wall, and roof (ibid.). Thiis-Evensen argues that these three architectural elements are not arbitrary but, rather, are common to all historical and cultural traditions. The essential existential ground of floor, wall, and roof, he argues, is the relationship between inside and outside. Just by being what they are, the floor. wall, and roof automatically create an inside in the midst of an outside, though in different ways: the floor, through above and beneath; the wall, through within and around; and the roof, through over and below. Using examples from architectural argues that any building can be interpreted experientially in terms of these three archetypes. His main purpose is to describe the kinds of envi- ronmental and architectural experience that different variations of floor, ppose. The result, he claims, is “a common history as evidence, Thiis-Evensen wall, and roof sustain and presu . | | language of forchitectural] form which we can immediately understand, regardless of individual or culture” (ibid., p. 17). Thiis-Evensen demon- strates that @ building's relative degree of insideness or outsideness in regard to floor, wall, and roof can be clarified through motion, weight, and substance ~ the three "existential expressions of architecture” (ibid., p. 21). By motion, he means the architectural element's sense of dynamism or inertia - that is. whether the element seems to expand, to contract, or to rest in balance. Weight involves the sense of heaviness or lightness of the element and how it relates to gravity. Last, substance relates to the ane beer 5 book is @ rewritten version of his 1982 doctoral dissertation done under the direct fF Norwegian architect and architectural theorist Christian Norberg- Schulz, on€ of the major figures in developing 2 phenomenology of architecture and envi Though not discussed here, Norberg-Schulz’s work also draws centrally on . 's thinking and is another major contribution to grounding Heidegger's notion of dwelling practically. {see Norberg-Schulz 1971, 1980, 1985, 1988) 191David Seamon material sense of the element - whether it is soft or hard, coarse or fine, warm or cold, and so forth. In broadest terms, the central question Thiis-Evensen asks in Archetypes is, "How do floor, wall, and roof express insideness and outsideness through motion, weight, and substance?" The relationship between Insi- deness and outsideness has, in fact, received considerable attention In phenomenological research on environmental and architectural exper'- ence (e. g. Chaffin 1989, Dovey 1985, Mugerauer 1993, Mugerauer 1994, Seamon 1991, Silverstein 1993), especially in geographer Edward Relph's phenomenology of place (Relph 1976), which demonstrates that inst- deness is the hallmark quality transforming space into place and sustain- ing the deepest sense of dwelling. One of Thiis-Evensen's contributions 's to illustrate ways in which architecture contributes to insideness and Outsideness and therefore grounds a sense of dwelling. Thiis-Evensen emphasizes that different architectural styles and cultural traditions may interpret the inside-outside dialectic through different degrees of open- ness and closure (for example, the medieval fortress's impenetrable walls versus the Renaissance palace's walls of many windows). Regardless of the particular stylistic or cultural expression, however, floors, walls, and roofs provide related results in that they shape an insideness in the midst of outsideness so that the individual and Group can dwell. In addition, varying physical qualities of floors, walls, and roofs lead to different ex- Periences of motion, weight, and substance. The result is an intricate set of tensions between architectural elements and architectural experience: What is it that the roof, the floor and the wall do? As a motion, the roof rises or falls. The walls stand up or Sink, the floor spreads out, climbs or descends. In this way, weight is also implied. That which rises is light, that which falls is heavy. And if the roof is bright and soft as a sail, it is open. If it is dark and of stone, it is closed. If the openings in a wall are tall and narrow, they ascend, if they are short and wide, they sink. A soft and fine floor is warm and open, but if it is hard and coarse, it closes and is heavy (ibid., p. 23). The wall and window as examples In the three main sections of Archetypes, Thiis-Evensen examines the ways through motion, weight, and substance that floors, walls, and roofs express insideness and outsideness. This work marks the start toward a descriptive language delineating the invariant elements of the built envi- ronment that have significance for human experience and dwelling. One example is Thiis-Evensen's explication of the wall, which, of the three 192Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling — archetypes, he shows to reconcile most potently the relationship between inside and outside, since it is by way of the wall that one “passes through” between exterior and interior, either physically or visually through doors and windows. The wall resolves the existential tension between inside and outside in two ways: either the wall draws exterior space inside, or the wall draws interior space outside. In turn, this degree of penetration from inside to outside or vice versa can vary: on one hand, there can be com- plete openness and invitation; on the other hand, there can be complete closure and rejection. One way in which the wall expresses this dialectic between openness and closure is through its windows, which are said by Thiis-Evensen to contribute to a building's sense of inside and outside in that they announce the mode of life within the building. Windows are “always an expression of the interior to the world at large” (ibid., p. 251): “While the door is determined by its relation to what is outside, the window is the symbol of what is inside. Just like the eye, it expresses the interior’s outlook over exterior Space ... "(ibid.). Thiis-Evensen points out that a window is much more than a wall open- ing: 2 window that is only a gaping hole makes the wall “a lifeless skin around a dead and empty interior" (ibid., p. 259). In clarifying how win- ilding, he examines the parts of a window - dows actually give life to a bu the opening, ‘he face in the opening, and the frame around the opening. He then considers how each of these components contributes to a sense of insideness and outsideness. For example, the frame of a window is im- portant because it makes a setting for the inside space and brings it to- ward the viewer on the outside. If the window has no frame, the outside forces its way in. The frame is important, therefore, because it leads the inside out. This “leading out” occurs in varying Ways, depending on what parts of the frame ~ sill, tintel, and jambs ~ are emphasized or deempha- Sized (figure 4), If all its parts are emphasized (a in figure 1), then the “re interior space seems to reach outward. On the other hand, if only entire inter ighted, then an upward movement and roofs take prece- the lintel is only the sill is highlighted, a sinking movement and floors dence (0); sence (c). In addition, the sense of movement for a wall as a ee On be affected by the arrangement of window frames (figures 2 whol and 3). 193denen eee e nee figure 3 figure 2 194Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling Another important quality that relates to the window's sense of insi- deness and outsideness is the shape of its opening for which Thiis- Evensen identifies three variations - vertical (a in figure 4), horizontal (b), and central (c}, These different forms lead to different inside-outside relationships, thus both vertical (a in figure 5) and central (b) windows suggest a movement coming from inside out, while a horizontal window (c) suggests an inside lateral movement that is separate from the person outside +> | b a or v nw @-@ © e figure 4 figure 5 195David Seamon eS In his explication of the floor, wall, and roof, Thiis-Evensen assumes that there are various shared existential qualities - insideness-outsideness, gravity-levity, coldness-warmth, and so forth - that mark the foundation of architecture. Thus, a wall with windows whose lintels are emphasized suggests a sense of upward movement and levity, just as a wall with windows whose sills are emphasized will feel heavier and in relationship to the ground. Or, if one studies the experienced qualities of stairs, one realizes that narrow stairs typically relate to privacy and a faster ascent, whereas wide stairs often relate to publicness, ceremony, and a slower pace. Similarly, steep stairs express struggle and strength, isolation and survival--experienced qualities that frequently lead to steep stairs’ use a5 a sacred symbol, as in Mayan temples or Rome's Scala Santa. On the other hand, shallow stairs encourage a calm, comfortable pace and typically involve secular use, as, for example, Michelangelo's steps leading up to the Campidoglio of Rome's Capitoline Hill (ibid., pp. 89 - 103). Thiis-Evensen argues that his work has direct design implications. He claims, that, too often, an architect's aesthetic sense is subjective because he or she has not thoughtfully considered how architectural forms arise from and translate themselves back into shared existential qualities like motion, weight, substance, insideness, outsideness, permeability, closure, and so forth. Thiis-Evensen believes that understanding the archetypes “and their expressive potentialities is essential when [a design] vision is to be turned into a realization” (ibid., p. 387). The result might be a building whose formal qualities resonate with its practical needs. The possibility becomes greater that human beings and their built world are reconciled and the quality of dwelling strengthened. This reconciliation between People and their built world is also a major aim in the research and design of American architect Christopher Alexan- der, though he works at a different experiential scale than Thiis-Evensen, is. Alexander is more concerned with architecture in its larger environmental context. In other words, how can activities, buildings, spaces, and landscapes be designed in an integrated, coherent way to create places that are coher- ent, beautiful, and alive for their residents and users? In short, the aim is place making that sustains dwelling. Like Thiis-Evensen, Alexander believes that architecture today often fails both practically and aesthetically. He also believes that many built environments of the past - for example, a city like Venice or Oxford, or a building like Chartres Cathedral or a Japa- 196Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling nese farmhouse - generally had a sense of togetherness and harmony (Alexander 1979). An important focus of Alexander's work is how archi- tectural parts belong together in a larger environmental whole (Alexander 1993). Alexander argues that, if an environmental whole is made rightly, it has a powerful sense of place, which may help people who live in and use that place to have more satisfactory, vibrant lives. In his work, Alexander seeks a way to return a sense of wholeness to the buildings and environments of modern Western society. He emphasizes that the crucial process is healing. Every new construction, whether building or square or street furniture OF window detail, must be made in such a way as to heal the environment, where “heal” especially means "make whole." The obligation is that the thing built must work "to create a continuous structure of wholes around itself” (Alexander 1987, P. 22). The practical tool that Alexander develops to foster environmental wholes and healing is ‘pattern language” - 4 conceptual method whereby the layperson or designer can identify and visualize the underlying elements and relationships in a built environment that foster a sense of place (Al- exander et al. 1977). In his master volume, Pattern Language (ibid.), Alex- ander and colleagues identify 253 of these elements, oF patterns, as the are called. A pattern is both interpretive and prescriptive: first, it isa de- scription of a particular element of the built environment that contributes to a sense of place (for example, “identifiable neighborhood * {no. 14), "degrees 0 f public ness” 6), "main gateways {53}, ‘high ploces" [62], and “window place’ (180); second, it iS practical instruction that suggests how to design the rticular element effectively (for example, in regard to “mai «mark every boundary in the city which has important jain gateways boundary of a building cluster, a neighborhood, a human meaning - "aways where the mojor entering paths cross the ae py great Garena Oe sevandet etal. 1977, P- 278). joundary reps however, that successful places are always com- Alexander emphast ated patterns that work synergistically to create a posed of mary the individual parts. To incorporate this wholeness in whole ae ‘alexander organizes the 253 patterns from larger to pattern smaller in three ibe larger-scale environments that cannot be de- 1. Pattern tail at once (e. g. “community of 7,000" [12}, shopping signed ¢ describe larger-scale environments that cannot be de- pat or built all at once (e. 9. “street” [32], "housing cluster” [37)); signe’ 197David Seamon 2. Patterns that describe buildings and groups of buildings (e. 9. “main building” [99], “family of entrances" [102], “positive outdoor space {106)}; 3. Patterns that describe individual building details {e. g. “structure fol- lows social spaces” [205], “columns at the corners” (212], “front door bench" (242]). Alexander argues that, for any new design problem, it is important to write a pattern language that begins with larger patterns and then incor- porates smaller patterns. In this way, the larger qualities of environmental wholeness are held in sight as smaller qualities are fitted around them. He also emphasizes that the 253 patterns in Pattern Language are illustrative and far from complete. New design problems and environments may require revised patterns or even entirely new patterns that the architect will need to create from scratch (e. g. Coates and Seamon 1993). In the end, pattern language is not a finished product but an on-going process of dialogue among architect, client, user, builder, and site. Pattern lan- guage is not a master list of unchangeable design principles that must be incorporated in all buildings and places. Instead, it is a way of looking at and thinking about buildings and environments so that one can better understand how their parts might work together to create a whole. AS Alexander explains, “Design must be premised on a process that has the creation of wholeness os its overriding purpose, and in which every increment ° of construction, no matter how small, is devoted to this purpose." (Alexander 1987, p. 16) Aspects of an architecture of dwelling Like Heidegger, both Thiis-Evensen and Alexander believe that the built world can help illuminate and sustain essential qualities of human un- derstanding, life, and experience, though the two architects’ thinking is somewhat different as to what these essential qualities are. Alexander would no doubt appreciate Thiis-Evensen’s effort to understand archi- tectural elements existentially, but he might ask that Thiis-Evensen give more attention to how individual archetypes join together into a larger sense of human meaning, environment, and place. For example, Alexander would probably accept Thiis-Evensen’s interpretation of the way that architectural qualities support a sense of insideness and outsideness, but he would also emphasize that these architectural qualities are of little use if they do not contribute to the building's wider sense of place. To under- 198Concretizing Heidegger's Notion of Dwelling stand more clearly this difference between Alexander and Thiis-Evensen, we can consider one example - windows, to which both writers devote considerable attention but in different ways. In Pattern Language, Alexan- der includes several patterns dealing with windows and, in each, they work in such as way as to involve people more directly with their place. For example, the pattern "windows overlooking life” [no. 192] insists that the building, through its windows, have direct visual or physical relation- ship with the surroundings so that inside and outside. Similarly, the pat! that: "Everyone loves window seats, bay windows, and big windows with low sills and comfortable chairs drawn up to them ... Therefore, in every room where you spend any length of time during the day, make at least one window into o ‘window place” (Alexander 1977, p. 834, p. 837). , / This pattern particularly welt illustrates Alexander's emphasis on how buildings work as networks of behaviors and experiences. When people enter a room with a window, Alexander argues, they typically experience two forces: first, they are drawn toward the light; second, they want to rest and be comfortable. A window seat automatically resolves these two forces, and a space is transformed into a place where one can both sit comfortably and enjoy the light. in pattern language, Alexander uses the term density to describe the multivalent meaning of the built environ- ment. He explains that “many patterns overlap in the same physical space: the building '5 vey dense; it has many meanings captured in o small space: and through this density it becomes profound" (ibid., p. xli). A simple example of density is the ‘window place” pattern, which, in terms of Thiis-Evensen’s motion, weight, and substance, could be said to gather d reconcile arkness-light and movement-rest. By incorporating a ti ed Jace to be comfortable,” a room becomes more meaningful and one on if it included either a “lighted place” or “place to rest” alone. oe ' fevande Thiis-Evensen does not consider how windows work as a Unlike Ale cus of activity. Instead, he speaks of the window largely in significant formal existential expression. In other words, how, by its spe- terms 0 ape, and physical arrangement, does a window allow the . ize, pe, § ee orion and exterior of a building to speak or not to speak to the world it there will be a connection between tern "window place” [no. 180] says nid? . a . rie Evens emphasis on how formal architectural qualities are experi- ee not mean that Alexander is more complete in his existential derstand of architecture than Thiis-Evensen. Rather, these differ- 199David Seamon oo eeeeeeeeeeeeSsSsaeeeeeeeee ences in approach and scale point toward the considerable variety 7 ways in which the built environment can contribute order and patter in human life. One can imagine a continuum of architectural and ee mental meaning that runs, on one end, from the pure architectura nd ment to, on the other end, complex aggregations of buildings, ren a environments that evoke a powerful sense of place. A thorough wal chitectural and environmental phenomenology would delineates ae range of architectural and environmental experience and considers at qualities of the natural, built, and human worlds contribute to a sens' place and environmental wholeness, . tecture In this sense, both Thiis-Evensen and Alexander's theories of archite ii and place are a major contribution to clarifying Heidegger's crvP' of statement cited at the start of this article - "Only if we are capable _ dwelling, only then can we build." The work of both architects hel us better to dwell because they help us better to see one part of our wor! h the way that architecture can contribute to human being-in-the-world. " different ways, both architects seek a virtuous circle in which people ah world, thinking and designing, designing and building are all mutually Supportive. 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BAUEN UND WOoHNEN BUILDING AND DWELLING Martin Heideggers Grundlegung einer Phainomenologie der Architektur Martin Heidegger's Foundation of a Phenomenology of Architecture WAXMANN