Typology of space

1. TYPOLOGY OF SPACE
THE TRANSFORMATION FROM PHYSICAL SPACE TO PHILOSOPHICAL SPACE

2. THE EVOLUTION OF SPACE
Physical Psychological Visual Conceptual Spiritual

3. A SPACE WITHOUT OPENING
An enclosed space which remain in complete darkness

4. PHYSICAL SPACE
Obstructive side of space

5. INTERPRETATION OF PHYSICAL SPACE
• A physical space is a definite space, it’s defined
simply by the Cartesian coordinate system in
the ideology of mathematics and science. It’s
measure using the unit of cubic volume, a
physical unit.
• Hence, we can concluded that the volume of a
physical space is essentially a box form with
four vertical planes and two horizontal planes.
In architecture, it’s basically the volume of air
bounded by the walls, ceiling and the floor of a
room.

6. The lack of light in a physical space will induced fear and despair within anyone trapped or place within it.
Human needs an opening in some ways, when trapped within a enclosed space, one will yearns to get out.
When that is denied, an atmosphere of panic and terror will arise.

8. Hence, a physical space is often utilized as a tool of
punishment or psychological torture. One such example is a
prison cell, which is use a both a confinement for criminal
and at the same time it’s a form of punishment by itself.
When a criminal is serving his/her times, the duration of the
sentence is not so much the punishment but rather the
restriction and the confinement is what that’s punishing.
Black hole of Calcutta

9. A SPACE WITH ONE OPENING
The opening to the outside world

10. PSYCHOLOGICAL SPACE
The fundamental of a human space

11. THE MAKING OF A HUMAN SPACE
• Since a physical space is not suitable for living,
the making of a more human space is necessary.
• Without an opening a space will remain
inhabitable, as such the door is the first step in
the making of a human space.
• The idea of an entrance that allow one to travel
into and out of a space it’s the first step towards
making it habitable.

12. A door acts as an opening, its allows you to transit between space, it act as an invitation and a barrier at the same time.

14. A door is designed to make it possible for us
to enter/exit a physical space. It's a portal. It
act both as a gateway to the outside world and
at the same time a protection for those within
the space from what’s outside. Hence, we
cannot leave a door open forever, because that
will be no better than keeping a huge hole on
the wall of the space, defeating the purpose of
a door.

15. A WELCOMING SPACE
An invitation to nature

16. VISUAL SPACE
Connecting the universe and architecture

17. AN OPEN INVITATION FOR NATURE
• Since a psychological space with a door might not
be always welcoming, we must come up with
another way to perceive and connect ourselves to
the outside world.
• An opening on the wall, brings in the beauty of
nature from the outside into the architectural space
build with man-made beauty. Introducing and
connecting the universe and an man-made space
together is perhaps the most important part of the
designing of a interior space.

20. The use of glass windows extends the wall beyond the
boundaries of the space, in such a way that the line
between a man-made space and the nature is blurred. We
need nature to survive, and it’s evident in the
development of windows, from the classical frame
windows in olden architecture to the frameless corner
or even window walls, we are inviting more and more
nature into our rooms. This is especially true in urban
area, where the natural beauty such as sunset, sunrise
and starlight are lacking, as such we built our buildings
higher and higher in hope to reach for the faraway
nature.

21. AN INTERPRETATIVE SPACE
Everyone sees it differently

22. CONCEPTUAL SPACE
An implied space with endless interpretations

23. A SPACE WITH A SUBJECTIVE BEAUTY
• A conceptual space is a space that is defined
by its quality. Its nature can only be
subjectively identified by the beholder with
the implementation of its physical elements.
• Thus any and all form of decoration,
including but limited to four poles inserted
between two horizontal planes or two
vertical planes placed in parallelism, suggests
a volumetric space.

25. Adding furniture and other decorative is a way off expanding the space around us, we place them in
the right place to add more “space”, we put in just the right amount to beautify a space but not so
many that makes us feels suppressed by the space.

26. SPIRITUAL SPACE
The reflection of heaven

27. THERE ARE MORE TO THE WORLD THEN WHAT OUR EYES SEE
• Spirituality has played a major role in shaping the built
environment, it is the believe that there are more to the
world then what our eyes can see and the willingness to
related to them.
• A spiritual space often refers to the ceiling of an
architectural space, which is build in magnificent details to
represent our respect for the unknown and the heaven. It
represent our our believe in gods and religions but at the
same time the spiritual quality of a space transcends the
religion of its users, as evident from the structure on the
right which have both served as a church and a mosque
during different times.

31. As we progress from olden architectural design into the more modern approach, we no longer see walls as a
boundary for the space we are designing but rather we see them as objects use to decorate the space, we are no
longer trying to separate ourselves from the nature, we now see to connect and merge with the nature to the
greatest possible with our design.

32. SUMMARY
• This presentation is the study of different types of space, and how we try to connect to
nature while still having a private space of our own.
• The first part of the presentation, I discusses the most basic of space the physical space, then I
proceed on about the changes we made to it in the effort of making the space more “human”
from the idea of psychological space to visual space and ultimately the conceptual space.
• The later part of the presentation, I brought up the idea of spiritual space, which is not so
much about making the space more human but rather it’s a form of art in which we celebrate
the beauty and greatest of the heaven above us, at which we reflects and attempt to translate
our feeling and respect for it into our grand design, while allows other to relate without the
limitation of belief and religion.