TY - THES ID - 135048984 TI - Macbeth: Possibilities of Polykatoikia as (Gradient) Public Interior AU - Kolbas, Asli Eylem AU - Ooms, Tomas AU - KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur. Opleiding Master of Architecture (Brussels) PY - 2019 PB - Leuven KU Leuven. Faculteit Architectuur DB - UniCat UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:135048984 AB - To grasp the fundamental ideas that will be discussed here, we must go back to Modernity and address the clearly defined space it brought with itself. The notions of Modernity lead to the significant example of Maison Domino, and this dissertation, examines its elements in three categories: pillars, floors and stairs. It continues by calling attention to “Polykatoikia”, which is the dominant typology in Athens. Currently, the debates in Athens discuss that there should be new discoveries on the possibilities of the typology. That is because it is a typology that evolved constantly, and that it was originated in 1920s from the Maison Domino, a flexible structure. Along with a crowded background of related events which had brought polykatoikia to the evolved position it is today, we can see glances of that, which provides its flexibility and makes it possible that this idea of Modernity can fit itself in the Mediterranean as well. This concluded by blurring the defined space that Modernity offered, by proposing “gradient spaces”. Later, it is discussed that the city grew out of this small scale typological element; polykatoikia, since it made the self-building possible. The bottom-up informal planning of the city provided a city of repetition, and the scarcity of public space. These aspects are interpreted through the book of Mark Pimlott: “Public Interior as an Idea and Project”. There are six interventions which indicates the evolution of polykatoikia as an example of gradient spaces; and the scarcity of public spaces in Athens. In Pimlott’s book, he points out that the term public interior is these ideas appear in architecture, of those interiors that we take to be public: those within which we consider ourselves to be free individuals, and where we see ourselves among others; the within which we are conscious of our place in society, and in the world. The public interior as we recognize it emerged in Modernity as a response to modern state with its specialized organization of functions as a response to the phenomenon of metropolis. These restrictive interior such as hospitals and prisons, have been models for those that seem like their opposites. In this dissertation, the gradient spaces are discerned as public interiors as well. The methodology is graphic storytelling, and uses the story of Macbeth as a groundwork to start with. There are many interpretations of the play as well; one of which is “Sleep No More”, that shows the play of Macbeth is related with the multiple interiors, which had been an inspiration. Presenting public interiors as: organizing principles, display, control, thematic; building types, have also been inserted into the story. The time-dependence of the story is making the methodology an example of repetition and a response to the current debate in Athens, which is the scarcity of public spaces. Macbeth had provided a suitable groundwork of psychological characters, in which the ideas of control in the city and interiors, authority, free individuals and collectivity could be juxtaposed; which were the main ideas in Pimlott’s book. Like this, the ideas of repetition, difference, time, informality, polykatoikia, event, possibility, gradient space, Mark Pimlott’s book: “Public Interior as Idea and Project”; melts together within and through the book of Macbeth(f.). ER -