Fundamental Concepts of Architecture : The Vocabulary of Spatial Situations

221 the spatial requirements made by movements, which resem- ble, for example, the impression left behind in a plastic mass. Osk ...

222 home, so to speak, enters us.’ (2005, 93) Alongside the home or apartment, this I-space can extend to arbitrary portions of ...

223 Perspectival perception offers us a double access to the spatial environment: a subjective view and an objective standard. T ...

224 by a particular standpoint constitutes a typical precondition, one that is generated, for example, by guiding the > gaze ...

225 divert the gaze. The frame of the delimited vista is exploded, the image plane is broken open, as continuous wall slabs blur ...

226 mean, however, that we experience space from an arbitrary assortment of interchangeable angles of vision. Instead, the vario ...

227 erates dynamic colour relationships. As a consequence, we ex- pect picturesque architecture to offer a pictorially composed ...

228 partial images alternate in a kaleidoscopic fashion, forming sequence as though in a film. The attractiveness of a pictur- e ...

229 practically through its attachment to a distinctive texture of characteristic historical, landscape and architectural featur ...

230 into each other’s neighbourhood. The bridge gathers the earth as landscape around the stream.’ (1953/2008, 150) Through the ...

231 structure, in contrast, public squares or buildings create inner focal points or enter into dialogue with prominent counter- ...

232 may be disassembled into a > layering of levels. Such houses seem light and ephemeral, an example being the tradition- al ...

233 intensification, synoptic views, and power, while in a dusty lower level, one remains tied to the earth, subordinated. The s ...

234 function to the empty space. Solid masses remain subordi- nate, in the background, and support the form of the space. The in ...

235 as poché may in turn contain interior spaces which remain in the background in relation to the main rooms as subsidiary cham ...

236 ments they are capable of dissolving buildings or walls into a permeable structure. Moreover, they offer a multiplicity of o ...

237 other hand, makes standing difficult or even impossible. The dynamic effect of a slanted ground plane comes about because it ...

238 nonetheless active, a seated posture often provides relief from continuous activity, or allows rest after walking and standi ...

239 ments establish specific relationships of hierarchy between lis- teners or spectators on one side, and speaker podiums, stag ...

240 or have the feeling of fusing, of merging together with the plane upon which we lie. There are spaces which stage recumbence ...