Abstract This essay examines two materials found on the walls of a British psychiatric hospital: shatter-proof glass and steel-reinforced concrete. Interested in their constitution through and of the institutional space, it explores these common building materials’ capacities to tolerate as well as to hold and contain. In doing so, the essay contemplates visually and textually where institutional space and practices begin and are bounded. The authors’ own voices enter in an epilogue, reflecting on their role in facilitating and testing the tolerance of institutional spaces. In doing so, they point towards architectural features in which these walls and their particular forms of boundaries between the inside and the outside of the psychiatric institution are constitutive of spaces of tolerance: they contain and regulate the users of the spaces (staff, patients, visitors as well as researchers). The tolerance articulates as selective yielding and holding.

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屈服和（不）破坏：精神病医院墙上的两个观察结果

摘要 本文考察了在英国精神病院墙壁上发现的两种材料：防碎玻璃和钢筋混凝土。对它们通过制度空间的构成感兴趣，它探索了这些常见建筑材料的容忍、保持和包容的能力。在这样做的过程中，本文从视觉和文本上思考了制度空间和实践的起点和界限。作者自己的声音进入了尾声，反思了他们在促进和测试制度空间容忍度方面的作用。在这样做时，他们指向建筑特征，其中这些墙壁及其在精神病院内部和外部之间的特定边界形式构成了宽容的空间：它们包含并管理空间的使用者（工作人员、患者、访客以及研究人员）。公差表达为选择性屈服和保持。