Exploration of Contemporary Space Dynamics: Spatial Design

Abstract

The primary objective of this study is to focus on contemporary spatial dynamics and, unlike traditional spatial structures, to develop contemporary, flexible, user-friendly, and evolving spatial structures. Spatial design focuses on the design of contemporary, permeable, flexible, lightweight spatial boundaries, incorporating parameters such as flexibility, temporal scalability, and convexity, which are inherent to spatial dynamics. In spatial design, boundaries between spaces are established not through walls and doors, but through flexible design elements, significantly different from traditional methods. Spatial design is a design based on perception, and therefore, it can be quite lightweight, flexible, permeable, and incorporate a wide variety of dynamics. The principles of Gestalt theory of perception form the fundamental foundation of spatial design, bringing order and aesthetics to any composition. Therefore, based on perception theory, spatial design categorizes spatial boundaries as point elements, planar elements, elevation differences, color and texture variations, furniture, three-dimensional spatial structures, lighting, and overhead suspended ceilings. Therefore, after defining different spaces with these boundaries, spatial design associates these spaces with a spatial organization different from the traditional room-corridor relationship: depth, density, and interconnectedness In addition to new space boundaries and spatial relationships, it presents contemporary space types in spatial design, including group space characteristics such as day and night compartments, individual space characteristics such as service compartments, and new space types such as; liminal, dual, repetitive, intermediate, niche, and open spaces. This study aims to introduce spatial design in all its dynamics and reveal them through examples. It presents contemporary, flexible, user-friendly, changeable and transformable, and highly adaptable to different scenarios.