Lo spazio della soglia nella lezione di Adriano Cornoldi

The paper analyzes the theme of threashold rereading the main issues of research on domestic space carried out by Adriano Cornoldi, professor of Interior Architecture at the University IUAV of Venice, the home sites. The goal of the search for Cornoldi, was not to identify categories of analysis for the domestic space different from the existing ones, but enrich the content by placing people and their gestures to the space center. That's how actions such as Access, Delving, Moving, Looking out, Withdrawing and Gathering, are transformed into an itinerary of archetypes can describe the sights, the meanings and the founding themes of domestic inhabiting. The theme of the threshold, in a more or less explicit way, recurs in the categories identified with a certain continuity. The Cornoldi studies demonstrate that the presence of man and his choices is the reason of space and justify the construction of passing places, often devoid of a real spatial definition, which however are able to return dwelling principles analogous to an interior defined by its materiality