Behind the Architectures – Spatial Extension in the Nature

• Main Authors: Li-Chun Chang, 張理淳
• Other Authors: 王為河
• Format: Others
• Language: zh-TW
• Published: 2015
• Online Access: http://ndltd.ncl.edu.tw/handle/2ch8e2

碩士 === 國立臺南藝術大學 === 建築藝術研究所 === 103 === What is nature in our mind? What is the so-called ‘nature’? Do the human beings create a nature like what it is in our minds or in reality? Simply, ‘nature’ stands for the origin of everything. We are not able to live without following the rules of nature. Nature is everywhere in our lives, and everything might have begun with a simple plane. For example, when we look up into the vast sky, we find that between the sky and the earth is the horizon, the borderline that is always there. Or perhaps, for another example, on the shore, the pulse of waves that we sense extends endlessly but finally comes back to the same origin and therefore forms the most simple and natural plane that is ultimately on the same surface. Architectures construct a special zone. To some extent, we are also building a natural zone full of uncertainty. This zone limits neither physical substances nor pure thoughts. It is not a borderline for the existing substances, either, but an environment for the existence of physical substances. In fact, architecture itself is another kind of language as well, expressing its thoughts about space. Architecture utilizes the combination and extension of axis and plane as its foundation and applies plane joints to produce more variations of volume. Architectural spaces also vary when different volumes joint together. Negative space left by the motion of volume and plane is not an unintegrated one, but represents the integration of different volumes. Negative space created by volumetric motion has three different interpretations. It might be the interstice, or the so-called spatial extension left by volumetric motion; it could also be spaces that are seeable but unusable; it could even be a negative space left by relative motion between a double-bottom space. Although volumetric motion creates more interstices, these interstices can only be sensed visually. However, perhaps it is because these interstices function as a joint, they are merely perceived within a second. We are curious about the interstices, wanting to look through them, but cannot understand everything thoroughly behind the interstices, which are very close to us, yet untouchable and inaccessible. Architectural volumes transform and move without restrictions and rules, just as pauses happening in every dialogue and punctuation marks appearing in every article are used in accordance with personal habits. The temporary stops are similar to the pauses, happening when architectural volumes are transforming.