From Order to Shared Living: The Emergent Space of Compulsory Encounter

Spatiality of Encounter and Error in the Temporary Organization of Work
This environment is not the result of a predetermined design, but the living outcome of an evolving relationship between structure and human action. Within a rigid and repetitive framework, temporary spatial units are deliberately rotated against the main structural grid—a subtle yet conscious gesture that does not reject order but renders it reflective. This rotation constitutes a deliberate deviation, a rupture emerging from within order itself, revealing that space is not merely obedient to structure but constantly seeking meaning. Such deviation embodies the essence of the error-form: the moment when order fractures from within and transforms into awareness.
In this logic, order and error coexist rather than oppose each other. The columns stand as the skeletal framework of necessity, while the rotated spatial units generate a dialogue between compliance and resistance. This dialogue is not an act of rebellion but a quiet redefinition of order. Error, in this sense, is not a break from structure but a moment of self-awareness—when space realizes it can generate meaning from within the law itself.
Between these spatial units, an undefined interstitial zone emerges—neither fully functional nor clearly bounded. This in-between condition embodies the notion of compulsory encounter: a space where human presence becomes inevitably intertwined. Workers, in their daily routines of movement and exchange, must pass through this zone. Yet this compulsion is not control; it is an ethical and social necessity that enables coexistence and mutual recognition. Through bodily proximity and incidental interaction, a shared spatial awareness gradually unfolds.
One particular spatial unit—initially left without any assigned function—eventually gained a central role. It was an additional unit, left aside at first, later appropriated by workers who transformed it into a shared, intimate zone. Sometimes it became a room for conversation, sometimes for rest, or for informal gatherings. Meaning, here, was not designed but emerged through lived use. This transformation reveals the true nature of “error” in space: not a failure, but a condition for new meaning to arise. The unintended becomes the site of authorship; architecture turns into a collective act of redefinition.
The interstitial spaces between these spatial units possess a distinct quality—neither private nor public, but a communal nook, where distance and closeness, individuality and belonging, coexist in delicate balance. Within this spatial calm, unplanned moments of exchange, dialogue, and reflection emerge. The rhythm of work is interrupted, and through these pauses, space evolves from an instrument of labor into a field of social and ethical experience.
What occurs within this organization is more than arrangement—it is a form of ethical thinking. Space mediates between structure and freedom, between compulsion and interpretation. Compulsion sustains the framework of shared life; error opens it to thought. Together they constitute the grammar through which space speaks: not to conceal, but to reveal the relationships among human presence, structure, and meaning.
Ultimately, this temporary organization stands as a metaphor for architecture itself—suspended between order and deviation, necessity and choice. Space here is not a product but a process, not an object but an unfolding awareness. Architecture becomes a way of thinking from within matter and limitation, continually renewed through each rotation, each error, and each encounter.