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Quality of Space
Understanding and Interpreting
Dec 2017
THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF
ARCHITECTURE
Interiors
Architecture goes beyond utilitarian needs…
suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say ‘this is beautiful’.
That is architecture art enters in.
Architecture only exists when there is a poetic emotion. - LE CORBUSIER
“Internal space,
that space which, can not be completely represented in
any form, which can be grasped and felt only through
direct experience, is the prominent feature of
architecture.”
To grasp space, to know how to see it, is the key to the
understanding of building.
Understanding space the sense
Physics of space
Material
Mass
Massiveness
Heaviness
Lightness
Hardness
Softness
Filigreeness
Compactness
Transparency
Boundaries
Opaque
Transparent
Translucent
Surface
– flat
– sculpted
Structure
Tectonic, divided
Non-tectonic, homogeneous
– amorphous, “without form”
– monolithic – layered
– hierarchical – chaotic
– non-directional – directional
Figuration
Mathematical – rational
Geometrical
– abstract
– concrete
Organic
– biomorphic
– intuitive
Dimension
Scale
– broadness
– narrowness
– tallness
– depth
Time
Physiology of the perception
Sight
Light
Color
Materiality
– abstract
– concrete
Touch Texture
– rough
– fine, smooth
– fibrous
Feeling Moist
Dry
Hot
Cold
Odorous
Smell
Agreeable
"neutral”
Hearing
Noise
Resonance,
reverberation
Echo
Muffled
Harsh
Sense of time
Movement
Permanence
Scale effect (feeling)
– “broadness”
– “narrowness”
– “depth”
SPACE, MATERIAL AND LIGHT
That could be architecturally responded as:
– Need for View
– Furniture Types
– Need for Ceiling Height or Shape
– Access to Ground or Roof
– Need for Vents or Exhausts
– Relative Security
– Need for Visual and Sound Privacy
– Need for Acoustic Control
– Need for Noise Control
– Relative Maintenance
– Plumbing involvement
– Relative Visual Access
deconstructing the text
Working Concepts: Deconstruction of your philosophy or concept.
CONCEPT
Mystique The spider web The book of the Jews Tripod Blank Canvass
DESIGN PHILOSOPHY
Architecture has to adapt to its environment and not the other way around
Functional efficiency through well connected spaces
Buildings can only create wonders if it has meaning
Firmness is on top of beauty and function
Monumentality brings divinity to the city
PHILOSOPHY:
Change is constant
Time is of the essence
Shock and awe
Only the strongest will survive
In God I trust
PROMINENT WORKS OF
ARCHITECTURAL SPACES
Entrance to ‘amsale seiol’
Church of Lalibela
Tadao Ando
Church of light
Guggenheim Museum
Frank Lloyd Wright's
Ricardo Legorreta
The Gallery Casa Del Agua
Alvar Aalto Natural Space
In conclusion, even if the other arts contribute to architecture, the
space which surrounds and includes us, which is the basis for our
judgment of a building, which determines the “yea” or “nay” of
aesthetic pronouncement on architecture. All the rest is important
in a subordinate relation to the spatial idea.
“Judgment of architecture is fundamentally judgment of the
internal space of buildings.”
We join spokes together
in a wheel, but it is the
center hole that makes
the wagon move.
We shape clay into a pot,
but it is the emptiness
inside that holds
whatever we want.
We hammer wood for a
house, but it is the inner
space that makes it
livable.
We work with being, but
non-being is what we
use.”
Lao-Tse
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Architectural space qualities.pdf

  • 1. Quality of Space Understanding and Interpreting Dec 2017
  • 2. THE PRINCIPAL PURPOSE OF ARCHITECTURE Interiors Architecture goes beyond utilitarian needs… suddenly you touch my heart, you do me good, I am happy and I say ‘this is beautiful’. That is architecture art enters in. Architecture only exists when there is a poetic emotion. - LE CORBUSIER
  • 3. “Internal space, that space which, can not be completely represented in any form, which can be grasped and felt only through direct experience, is the prominent feature of architecture.” To grasp space, to know how to see it, is the key to the understanding of building.
  • 5. Physics of space Material Mass Massiveness Heaviness Lightness Hardness Softness Filigreeness Compactness Transparency Boundaries Opaque Transparent Translucent Surface – flat – sculpted Structure Tectonic, divided Non-tectonic, homogeneous – amorphous, “without form” – monolithic – layered – hierarchical – chaotic – non-directional – directional Figuration Mathematical – rational Geometrical – abstract – concrete Organic – biomorphic – intuitive Dimension Scale – broadness – narrowness – tallness – depth Time
  • 6. Physiology of the perception Sight Light Color Materiality – abstract – concrete Touch Texture – rough – fine, smooth – fibrous Feeling Moist Dry Hot Cold Odorous Smell Agreeable "neutral” Hearing Noise Resonance, reverberation Echo Muffled Harsh Sense of time Movement Permanence Scale effect (feeling) – “broadness” – “narrowness” – “depth”
  • 8. That could be architecturally responded as: – Need for View – Furniture Types – Need for Ceiling Height or Shape – Access to Ground or Roof – Need for Vents or Exhausts – Relative Security – Need for Visual and Sound Privacy – Need for Acoustic Control – Need for Noise Control – Relative Maintenance – Plumbing involvement – Relative Visual Access
  • 10. Working Concepts: Deconstruction of your philosophy or concept. CONCEPT Mystique The spider web The book of the Jews Tripod Blank Canvass DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Architecture has to adapt to its environment and not the other way around Functional efficiency through well connected spaces Buildings can only create wonders if it has meaning Firmness is on top of beauty and function Monumentality brings divinity to the city PHILOSOPHY: Change is constant Time is of the essence Shock and awe Only the strongest will survive In God I trust
  • 12. Entrance to ‘amsale seiol’ Church of Lalibela
  • 14.
  • 16.
  • 18.
  • 20. In conclusion, even if the other arts contribute to architecture, the space which surrounds and includes us, which is the basis for our judgment of a building, which determines the “yea” or “nay” of aesthetic pronouncement on architecture. All the rest is important in a subordinate relation to the spatial idea. “Judgment of architecture is fundamentally judgment of the internal space of buildings.”
  • 21. We join spokes together in a wheel, but it is the center hole that makes the wagon move. We shape clay into a pot, but it is the emptiness inside that holds whatever we want. We hammer wood for a house, but it is the inner space that makes it livable. We work with being, but non-being is what we use.” Lao-Tse