EGOSPHERE
This term can be defined as space driven by the individualistic ego within the coisolated environment. Peter Sloterdijk sites the private apartment as an "atomic or elementary egospheric form - as a cellular world bubble." Our apartments or houses allow us to control every aspect of that space, making these spaces a direct representation of us. In the urban environment the egoshpere is housed under organically emerging structures, which causes the coisolated environment Sloterdijk refers to in his readings to exist and flourish.
The egosphere or capsule then becomes an essential piece of a larger network within our environment, giving us the ability to share partitions between our different bubbles. The egosphere is the space we can all relate to, however we must acknowledge the fact that our own egosphere is dependent on those of everyone else around us which reinforces a simple concept of the coisolation - the interconnectivity of all individualistic spaces. The concept of the egosphere in its most elementary sense is demonstrated by the findings of Robert Hooke and his observation of the cellular structure of cork under a microscope, which also identifies the coisolated nature of cellular structure.
"We will define the apartment as an atomic or elementary egospheric form – as a cellular world bubble, the massive repetition of which generates individualistic foams." 1
Apartments are Heideggerian: "Existence in a one-room apartment is nothing other than the being-in-the-world of one single case" 2
"When British physician Robert Hooke introduced, in his 1665 work Micrographia, the biological concept of the cell to describe the dense arrangement of discrete cavities in a piece of cork (discovered under a microscope), he was inspired by the analogy of rows of monks' cells in a monastery." 3