Space

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=__Space in Architecture.__= Space, for architects and urban planners is our work´s objective. Is the sense we give to a place using materials, shapes, and designs.

The element that characterizes and distinguishes the architecture of the other arts is the space, which at the same time collects all the material, formal and compositional factors that define and give entity. The perception of space varies according to our position on it. In architecture there it introduces a new factor: us. The position we occupy in front of the architecture or interior is definitive for the final perception we will have of the architectonic fact. If we stay in a point not moving we will have a bi-dimensional, perception, perhaps tri-dimensional (may be) as if we were in front of a painting or a relief. But if we move around the building, if we walk inside, we get a new experience: the 4th dimension.

=__Positive and negative space.__= A positive space is that which surrounds a negative space and negative space, that which surrounds a positive space. All positive forms contain positive space, but positive space is not always perceived as a positive form.

Similarly, all negative forms contain negative space, but the negative space is not always perceived as a negative form. This is because the positive space can be a fund for the negative forms, and negative space be for the positive, and the funds are not normally recognized as forms, those that normally exist in some degree of isolation. Of course, the positive space (or negative), completely or approximately isolated by negative forms (or positive) can be identified as a positive (or negative) form, but those forms are usually quite hidden, unless you consciously seek them. If they are founded frequently and regularly, then the relationship between the figure and its background is reversible: at a specific moment we find positive ways and negative space, in other ways we find negative forms and positive space.





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