Defining space with Horizontal Elements
Base Planes: A change in color/texture in a space.
Elevated Planes: Notes a change in the space for a different activity.
Depressed Planes: Informs the visitir that a new activity is happening in an area in that space. As the space despresses it creates walls.
Overhead Planes: Gives its view a sense of shelter, defines volume within a space.
Defining a space with Vertical Linear Elements
Single Vertical Planes: A plane that can create boundaries, zones and modify height to increase or decrease enclosure or seperation.
L-shaped Planes: Directional shelter that emphasizes its opposite end and creates circulation.
Parallel Planes: Defines a space with a strong sense of direction that makes you move through the space.
U-Shaped Planes: Frames something outside of itself and edefines a space with a sense of escape..
Four Plane Closure: Self sufficient space that has no openings and keeps people out.
Qualities of Architectural Space
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