When this thinking is applied to a spatial structure like Athenian Acropolis the picture gets clearer. The entrance to the Acropolis through the Propylaea creates a transformative transition between the city and the temple precinct. This space is clearly transitional, as the occupant moves through a series of thresholds, or layers, to ascend to the sacred space. The two wings of the building extend out, as if to pull the visitor into the space and create a zone of separation from the profane. Upon ascending through the Doric colonnade, the occupant has entered a zone of transition in which they are not yet a part of the sacred temple precinct, but they have been removed from the profane world. Upon passing through the door into the porch that leads to the Acropolis, the occupant has entered a zone of incorporation. Thus, the layering of the Propylaea illustrates each of the three stages integral to rites of passage. The section dedicated to 'Dissolution' and 'Dissociation' talks about methods and ways citing specific examples like that of Le Corbusier's Mill Owners’ Association Building in which the occupant constantly questions whether they are inside or outside. This ambiguity of space is a key characteristic of the liminal, essentially identified as blurring of spaces.
Process of liminal These processes include layering, dissolution and reformulation, and blurring.
Layering - A layering of spaces serves to separate, transition, and incorporate the occupant from one space to another so that the threshold is a progression through space. Dissolution and reformulation represents the breaking down of a composition to its constituent elements in their generally accepted meanings and use and then reconstituting them in a way that leads to a different understanding about what they are. Additionally, an overlaying of clear diagrams creates blurring between the two. This produces an ambiguity that leads the occupant to question what had previously been taken for granted in a certain kind of space and creates a new understanding and apprehension of the space. 10
Design consideration: - Usage of level differences in order to give it the sense of transition.
9.1.3 Paper 3 This paper although talks extensively and in depth about liminality, it majority deals with liminality in literature and how does it affect the characterisation, plots and other aspects of famous works and specific novel cited in the paper.
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(Zimmerman, Liminal Space in Architecture: Threshold and Transition, 2008)
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