Bachelor Portfolio

Linear sequences are a vehicle by which architects and landscape architects lead and manipulate the perception of the person experiencing a space. Any sequence is built of movements and creates a succession of events. Each event is relative to the preceding one-for example moving from a dosed to an open space or from light into the dark-and might affect future responses and choices. The observer weaves his or her path by combining choice with restrictions. He may choose to stop, walk faster or slower, look around, reverse the position in space, but the freedom is confined by certain designed obstacles on the way such as walls, slopes, water, staircases, and points of view that affect her perception. Spatial sequences may vary considerably between being directed and controlling or open and offering choices. Clearly, in a spatial setting one cannot be totally free to construct sequences. Yet, different spatial designs lend varying amounts of choice to the person experiencing them.