ABSTRACT
Transitions in design drawings are often indicated as razor-sharp boundary lines and planes. Spatial transitions between inside and outside will often create architectural space that ambiguously straddles both states. In every architectural commission, the architect acts as a proxy for an owner, exercising that owner's legal right to transform a given place. Architectural design often deliberately exploits the ambiguous overlap of form and territory. Territorial interpretation also varies from culture to culture. In dense urban environments where the facade coincides with the property line, transitions often occur behind the plane of the facade. While documenting the range of forms of transition, note those whose materiality, dimension, position and/or direction recur consistently, perhaps in theme and variation. Building configurations - porches, level changes or overhanging elements such as awnings, eaves and balconies - may carry no intrinsic territorial meaning yet be misinterpreted as zones of transition from public to private.
