It’s a space that has no purpose except transit. Therefore there is no thought of comfort in its design. When you see these spaces your brain has a reaction of “getting through it as soon as possible”. There is probably also something in our ancient survival instinct that lingering in open space like that could be fatal.
Have you frequently moved house, moved to new homes, apartments, lived in a car, anything like that? Hiked a long ways, for a long while?
I was homeless for some years… and yeah… almost everywhere you are is a liminal space, and eventually… it all becomes just another space, it loses that kind of strangeness, as you spend more and more time in places you’re not really meant to be in, and the places you think you can stay in, well, they turn out to be hostile and temporary too.
It’s a space that has no purpose except transit. Therefore there is no thought of comfort in its design. When you see these spaces your brain has a reaction of “getting through it as soon as possible”. There is probably also something in our ancient survival instinct that lingering in open space like that could be fatal.
I know what they are. They still don’t work on me.
Have you frequently moved house, moved to new homes, apartments, lived in a car, anything like that? Hiked a long ways, for a long while?
I was homeless for some years… and yeah… almost everywhere you are is a liminal space, and eventually… it all becomes just another space, it loses that kind of strangeness, as you spend more and more time in places you’re not really meant to be in, and the places you think you can stay in, well, they turn out to be hostile and temporary too.