Saturday, August 6, 2011

Half of the Architectural Story

I've been looking at a lot of sketches by Architects of late and I've come to a few conclusions.
1. Are buildings just modernest caves?
2. If the scale between buildings and their surrounds match, they look natural.
3. The spaces between, most commonly called negative space is called that because it doesn't have a positive building there.
Which really is only half of the story of peoples lives, as they don't just exist in a building but also in the community outside. As an urban designer, we try to meld and appreciate the other half of the story. A story that is hardly ever seen or noted and glorified as Architecture is.