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[sayandeb mukherjee]

CORRIDORS
 THE 4TH POSTING 

I am thinking to rename my research project as SPACE
INTERLUDE. If the readers have any opinion, please let
me know.

THE MAINFRAME

IN the later part of the 1970s, the cities started
becoming more crowded and that implied the space to be
further reconciled. The necessities gave birth to
newer architectural styles/format. The new
construction had the primary motive to provide
accommodation/dwelling to a huge number of people or a
number of working spaces under the same roof or
occupying a common square of horizontal space. The
only solution was to project the construction
vertically; a propagation toward the z-axis to the
possible extent. So, the ‘complexes’ rose over a
particular horizontal space and they’re named as
‘apartments’. It is termed as ‘tower block in UK. The
buildings constituted of a considerable number of
individual enclosures/units called ‘flats’ for the
case of residences. These ‘flats’, which were the
newest version of home for the nuclear families
(previously mentioned), used to look like cubicles
with approximately identical dimensions. The
configuration of the houses just supported the
functional necessities of living. They were
constructed on the basis of facility orientations.
There would be pre-allocated spaces inside the flat
for certain furniture or consumer product. For
example, long time after the invention of Television,
it became increasingly popular and affordable, and is
now like other indispensable object of living. For
this reason, the modern flats pre-consider an
accommodative space for television while laying down
the architectural scheme. But since these flats were
impossibe to be extended both horizontally and
vertically, it failed to give space to further
invented gazettes that inflicted its necessity as a
consequence of the modernization of society. To
exemplify, after the advent of computers, it was once
upon a time, an unaffordable object of desire, found
only in highly engineered laboratories or working
environments supporting specially programmed jobs. But
then came the personalized version of computers with
lesser technical proficiency for sharing smaller
amount of the huge workload (at the
office/workstation) that can be executed at ‘home’. 
This could only belong to the affluent class. Much
later, computers became extremely inexpensive and new
versions of personal computers came into existence
supporting personal works.  So the same dwellers who
designed their flats allocating space to the then
present electronic products began to procure personal
computers at their home when there was no space left
for that to accommodate. That enforced a further
compromise of the living space thereby laying a
disproportionate existence.  

What mattered more was the severe redemption of the
dimension of these flats with the increasing clamor of
space-crisis over the years. It is now incomparable to
the houses of the olden houses. One can say, there
happened a functional displacement of spaces – the
courtyards are replaced by suspended small balconies,
the garden which was once an encompassing space of
direct environmental association becomes as minimized
as two/three flower pots laid at the corner of the
balcony......to be continued

best regards
sayandeb mukherjee 




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