Course Objective: Explore architectural space and form in various cultures. 15 page paper is due May 4, 2018. The 15 pages should not include cover sheet or citations. Double space, 12 point and number each page. You may choose at two cultures to compare/contrast. You may explore only one. Whatever you do, please use several or one philosophy of architecture. Delve into how a culture define space Your final research paper is to analyze the importance of architectural space, exploring how at least two cultures express space and the importance of architectural space. I read the wonderful discussions that you all wrote about urban space. Now let us narrow our vision to our immediate space and how we react to space. Try to keep the paper to no more than 15 pages including citations. OVERALL: Minimum of 15. Introduction. Identify explain how one culture experience space. Compare to another chore to emphasize. Then tell me how you feel about it. The give summary. 187 | SSpace soft architecture. Sensors that trigger the opening and closing of doors and windows, the movement of walls, and even the lowering and raising of floors and ceilings produce the personalized spaces that characterize soft architecture. Theatrical stages have had this capability for some time, and thus have a lot to teach the designer seeking to produce soft architecture. Traditional Japanese architecture is an early version of soft architecture. The ability to change the use and “feel” of a space by simply moving a rice paper screen and rearranging the mats on the floor is a manual, low-tech version of soft architecture. A more recent manifestation of softness was attempted with the Centre Georges Pompidou in Paris (1977) (Figure 93). It was to have an interior in which many walls and floors were movable. Unfortunately that degree of flexibility was unjustified. Consequently the building was renovated in 2000 to increase its capacity and efficiency by “hardening” it. In soft architecture each force applied to it creates content that has form, as “water poured into a vase has form” (Ezra Pound). The water- generated Blur building by Herzog and Meuron poetically illustrates the new frontier of soft or reflexive architecture. The term now refers to any architecture that is not finite or fixed. See also: Blur • Responsive architecture • Flexibility Figure 93 Pompidou Center Space The classical questions include: is space real, or is it some kind of mental construct, or an artifact of our ways of perceiving and thinking? — Oxford Dictionary of Philosophy If architecture can be understood as the construction of boundaries in space, this space must be understood as commonsense space, a space that possesses meaning and speaks to us long before the architect goes to work. — Karsten Harries The ethereal thing about architecture is this thing called “space.” Space, as a central design concern for architects, has the interesting quality of.