| Title |
A Study on the Application of Colin Rowe's Theory on Transparency to Analyse the Architectural Space |
| Keywords |
Architectural space ; Colin Rowe ; Transparency |
| Abstract |
The purpose of this study is to analyse the application of the theory on transparency to the architectural spaces. The theory on transparency was initiated by Colin Rowe and Robert Slutzky for the first time. But the applications of theory show much ambiguity. According to the theory, the transparency is the concept for architectural space which has the deepeness in the shallow space. But the theory and the examples analyzed by Colin Rrowe are not suitable to represent the deepeness of architectural space. So this paper tries to redefine the transparency of architectural space examining several new cases.
As results, three kinds of redefinition of transparency was generated. First, the literral transparency which was defined by the physical transpareny of material is renamed by the visual transparency that was composed of the luminous background. Second, one of the phenomenal transparency which was made of several opaque screens is renamed by the plane transparency. And the last one, linear transparency is composed of the objects that create visual continuity of spaces. |