Vesper No. 7 | Sky | Fall-Winter 2022
Fred Scharmen
Space
Keywords
Space architecture, capsules, material, sublime, extreme environment
We often imagine space as a neutral thing. In architecture, we specify the location and nature of solids and surfaces, we arrange things and objects so that that it is possible to move through and around them. Space, in one sense, is simply what is left over after these configurations have played out. But this is an incomplete understanding of the nature of space. Space is not just the passive result of form’s active manipulation. The product of all this work with solids and material is space itself, that is what is being shaped. And like any medium, space has its own tendencies and resistances. Space is actively made, and, on Earth and off of it, also acts on its own terms, sometimes with deadly consequences.
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