Architecture of Emptiness: Human Flows as Generators Of Shapes In Future Architecture

Abstract

In this article we will try to discuss the existence of a series of haptic and perceptual indicators that allow us to correlate certain spaces as the most adequate for determined activities in an almost unconscious manner. These 'potential’ or 'aprioristic' spaces would be nodes or intersections of a map of invisible flows that would demonstrate an underpinning in which future cities could be established upon. Diminishing the contemporary architecture's mass would be a way through which the above mentioned flows could be materialized. We are not suggesting an 'organic shaped architecture, only an architecture that is free from its Cartesian bonds, allowed to express itself a an ordered recreation of the chaos that is hidden below the corseted geometric systems that define today's architecture and urban planning. The human body would no longer be defined in its movements by architecture. By the contrary, architecture would be moulded, in its form and logic, by the human reason and shape.