The limit in the domestic space: An approximation from and towards the phenomenology: Rogelio Salmona’s Riofrio House

Abstract

This is a reflection on the boundaries of the house from the phenomenology viewpoint. Despite the philosophical definitions of boundary from Aristotle, Heidegger, and others; it is on Henry Maldiney’s thesis, starting from Merleau-Ponty’s work, that our research is based on; due to the importance that it applies to the body and its movement while conceiving and subsequently experiencing space. We are also interested in Maldiney’s notion of logical coupling in which dwells the profound dimensions of architecture. This theoretical basis allows creating an imaginary promenade through one of the houses designed by Rogelio Salmona, in which the question on boundaries arises from this architect’s permanent meditation on the ideas of event and wandering.