Communication: People — Color — Space

Abstract

Space, both material and immaterial, is a fundamental basis for human existence, development, and evolution; space comprises the outer shell within which life takes place in all its variation. People are directly and inseparably connected to the space that surrounds them. “Lived space,” a term coined by philosopher and educator O. F. Bollnow, refers to the close connection between people and the spatial environment. The human life cycle, from its beginning in the womb through to death, unfolds in a wide variety of spatial environments and is subject to specific conditions, is in relation to them, and in exchange with them — that is, as part of a mutual relationship between people and their social and material-spatial surroundings. The characteristics of space are among the conditions of life that affect the course of human development, the quality of life, and the human condition in the different phases and spheres of life. The creative statement, symbolic effect, and impression made by an architectural space determine how people feel within it, to what extent the space appeals to them, and how they identify with it. It also affects how they appropriate it, behave toward and within it, and how they act individually and socially.