Sensing Spaces

Some days ago we went to London just for the Sensing Spaces exhibition. It was a very interesting experience that has opened my mind about what really makes a space different. It's so funny to work with light: to produce different effects, to make people feel different sensations and to obtain different atmospheres. But it's not just light that change the sense of a space. Materials too have an effect on space: for example different surfaces reflect light in different ways.
This is exactly what happens in Koshino House, by Tadao Ando.

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Photo from Wikiarquitectura © Mariana

As it's possible to see from these pictures there is an hard work for what concerns interior and exterior spaces. Here, the main material used is concrete. And concrete, since it's a cold material, it's accompanied with wood for what concerns floors. In the image below, it's possible to see these non casual holes in the wall that, in a wonderful way, give light to the corridor. I say non casual because distance and height is due to the staircase on the other side.

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Looking to this picture I feel very calm due to the presence of a calm light that goes in this room thanks to a gap between the ceiling and the wall. If there wasn't any gap, it wouldn't be the same experience for who come in this space. I think I will try to use these kinds of effects of light to give these sensations. First of all with the columbarium space. This because it will be useful too. Infact, moving this kind of gap I can obtain the same effect on the columbarium wall and have light exactly above it.

SOURCE: http://www.archdaily.com/161522/ad-classics-koshino-house-tadao-ando/koshino9_gonzalo/

Photo from Flick © Gonzalo Perez - http://www.flickr.com/photos/49942362@N03

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