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15 Built space, then, reduces the fullness of space that exists in the natural world. This is space viewed empty of human occupancy. Viewed from the inside out, however, the solid and void are reversed: Parallel with this conception we must look upon the human space that we experience around us as a fullness surrounded by emptiness; in this case natural space is an emptiness in relation to a space that we experience as fullness – not like a bubble in water, but like a drop of water in the air.
However, this is an illusion because the drawing, unmoored from any real human body, is merely conceptual. This illustration from Robert Fludd‘s Utrisque Cosmi of 1619 shows the then prevalent humanist belief that man and his proportions were a direct reflection of the divine order of the universe. To illustrate that point, the human body is projected directly onto the cosmos; the proportions of the two are the same. This is the underlying irony of the Vitruvian formula: despite being profoundly anthropocentric, the system is detached from actual human bodies, even when direct measurements are called for, as Alberti did in his 1464 treatise De Statua.
Our clothing will change in appearance as textiles are created that support or enhance humans’ physical functions. Despite its present ubiquity, the idea that space, rather than being a formal concept, is something that is physically occupied, used, and experienced, did not move to the center of architectural discourse until the last decade of the nineteenth century. 11 As the practice of interior planning evolved, the role of space-making – the molding of habitable space not devoid of its functional or quantitative requirements and as related to the placement of specific functional zones, furniture, equipment, and objects – became clearer.