Twenty-Six Design Concepts, Illustrated

space Simply put, space is the inhabitable environment which is created by architecture. It is the emptiness between architectural elements, and what our eyes see through as we look across a room. However, space is not nothingness; it is only in space where human activity occurs, and thus architects must effectively create space that works for the human activity they intend to occur there. It is common to hear of other design elements "making space". This is important because it gets to the central goal of all architecture: the creation of an inhabitable and functional structure. Basically, a building must be designed and built in a way that it can physically meet and implicitly encourage its desired function.