
Gaston Bachelard's The Poetics of Space: A Place to Dream
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The Room Is Not a Cell
The room is a very sacred space. It's not a cell. And we know that to arrive in a room where someone you love is there is a special moment. That's also a very special and that can't be achieved with a cheap, nasty, institutional door. For me, all the great buildings also introduce a tactile invitation in the scale of the human hand. Human hand is such a subtle instrument. And i have considered the main door as the handshake of the buildingd i have myself designed a special handshake to each one of my buildings.
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