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Architecture is, essentially, the thoughtful usurpation of space, for a time, by materials. The enclosed space is defined for a purpose, or a range of purposes. The enclosing materials capture, occupy, some space, and in doing so redefine it. The captured space is not always visible; it might be interesting to imagine it freed of its materials.
This set of pairs of images shows captured spaces, and some of the free space immediately adjacent to them. This pairing helps us appreciate the tension between the scale of the architect's responsibility in the act of capturing space, and gives an intimation of loss of what might never have been.
Some space not occupied by chimneys over the Kellosaari Power Plant, Helsinki, Finland
Some space occupied by chimneys over the Kellosaari Power Plant, Helsinki, Finland
Space captured at Kaapeli (the old Nokia cable factory), Helsinki, Finland
Space left almost entirely liberated next to the Kaapeli (the old Nokia cable factory), Helsinki, Finland
Space captured by the roof and cupola of the Sheldonian Theatre, Oxford, UK. Who captured this space? A design by Wren (perhaps with assistance from Wallis), rebuilt by Saunders but with a cupola replaced by Blore.....
Part of the roof (designed by Winde, or maybe Pratt, or maybe even Wren) at Belton House, nr. Grantham, UK, to enclose some space and provide shelter in a Restoration-not-quite-Baroque kind of way.
