ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how boundaries; that are structures of spatial separation and constraints are understood. It also explores how some of the binaries of our built world; public/private, inside/outside and open and closed, are affected by patterns of informational or social access. The chapter discusses the implications of findings for the field of architecture, and in particular focuses on the challenge of the relationship between code and space, as well as the opportunities for different models of shared space that these new configurations open up. In architectural space, one of the fundamental ways that boundaries are understood is the distinction between inside and outside, and this encompasses the act of differentiating spaces according to whether they are public or private. Walls, doors and other points of negotiation of territory and access do not have the defining authority when Wi-Fi and other technologies create other topological thresholds and boundaries.
