Network/Infrastructure/Interior

Abstract

A set of interiors can comprise a networked infrastructural system. Typically, infrastructure is understood as transportation, communication or utilities. Recently, infrastructure has been defined to include replicable building models that maintain an organization or information network. As individual buildings become reproducible products engineered for function they can be defined as a networked infrastructure. Likewise, a reproducible interior element can transcend its architecture and produce a networked infrastructural interior. This Hypothesis is analyzed though interior conditions without architecture (though various subway system conditions), within a non-architectured sites (the parking garage), and as a part of a systematically networked interior condition (Library/disaster relief and Privately Owned Public Spaces (POPS)).An expanding investigation into the interior requires an examination of interiority beyond quotidian occupation. Infrastructure is typically considered as physical or data driven interconnectivity, for example transportation, communication or utilities. Recently, infrastructure has expanded to include replicable building models that maintain an organization or information network. As individual buildings become reproducible products, no longer uniquely designed by architects but rather engineered for function, they can be defined as infrastructure (Easterling 2014). Likewise, a reproducible interior element set within an architecture can transcend that architecture and become a networked infrastructural interior condition. Infrastructural interiors can exist either without architecture at all, within a structure that is not typically considered an inhabitable architecture (or non-architectured), or where the functionality of the interior is networked.