All designed space is, in fact, pure abstraction, truer to a mathematical system than to any human “function”. While architects speak of designing space that satisfies human needs, it is actually human needs that are being shaped to satisfy designed space and the abstract systems of thought and organization on which design is based.
Woods, 1996
without preformed boundaries or an obvious, visualised hierarchical social structure. how do people choose to relate to one another and to their environment? what position, direction, distance is chosen? what affects these decisions? are they consciously made? are they built upon cultural experience? what kind of space is consequently produced?
