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             Marcela Oliva, B. Arch   M. Arch        LATTC Arch Tech - Digital Design - Mapping LA - CADD, Professor              olivam@lattc.edu

Dartmouth College

Concept:  Understand contrasting spaces usually known as positive and negative space

Technology: CAD and  Rapid Prototype - steroleotography

 

This concept is used in the arts, architecture, engineering, sculpting, graphic design, urban planning and landscape architecture among other.

We experience the world among this two contratasting parts that hold very different part of information

When we look around us, we tend to see recognizable objects what is inside the silhouette; in other words what has matter.

It's useful to learn to see the space around an object that only has air.  Many scholars called this the  negative space

To see the world in new ways and to develop your vizability you should practice at least five times a day to draw the space of the silhouette that has no matter. We can train ourselves to see the negative space as easily and instinctively as we see the object itself.

During this exercise,  you will learn to see things in new ways.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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