All possible material compositions can be conceived from a limited number of 118 elements, akin to all words that we use in our language ran be assembled from a limited number of 26 letters. While architectural space can be experienced and described in infinite ways, the number of fundamentally distinct ways in which it is defined is obviousK limited as well. The following, self-contained collection of spatial definitions is an attempt to use language not as propaganda or a means to establish legitimacy after the fact, but rather as an aid to capture the essential and fundamental properties of the unlimited means of designing and experiencing architectural space, especially as these unlimited possibilities could be considered random or completely arbitrary. These spatial definitions are hyperboles or idealizations of our everyday, built environment. They are extracts that are mixed and diluted beyond recognition in the majority of conventional spaces. They are attempts to intensify actual spatial experiences and generalize them through abstraction. Every spatial definition describes both a single space and a sequence; of spaces. Every spatial designation assumes thai the single room is a specific example of a sequence of rooms, just as the sequence of rooms is a possible articulation of a single room. The definitions listed here document architectural space as the effective interplay of architectural elements within a building. Taking a holistic approach, these definitions are based on interconnections within an architectural space; the spatial terms describe systems through these interconnections.
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