Series of A. Canaletto’s Venetian Capriccio Paintings of the 1740s and Features of Their Spatial Construction

Background: Spatial analysis encompasses the ability to perceive the visual world by arranging the local elements (“the trees”) into a coherent global configuration (“the forest”). During childhood, this ability gradually switches from a local to a global precedence, which contributes to changes in children’s spatial construction abilities, such as drawing or building blocks. At present, it is not clear whether enhanced global or local processing or, alternatively, whether switching between these two levels best accounts for children’s spatial constructional abilities. Methods: We assessed typically developing children 7 to 8 years old on a global/local switching task and on two widely used spatial construction tasks (the Rey–Osterrieth Complex Figure and the Block Design test). Results: The ability to switch from global to local level, rather than a global or a local advantage, best accounted for children’s performance on both spatial construction tasks. Conclusions: The present findings contribute to elucidate the relationship between visual perception and spatial construction in children showing that the ease with which children switch perception from global to local processing is an important factor in their performance on tasks requiring complex drawing and block assembling.

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Research on the Spatial Construction Strategy of Traditional Settlements for the Tujia Nationality

Applied Mechanics and Materials ◽

10.4028/www.scientific.net/amm.357-360.120 ◽

2013 ◽

Vol 357-360 ◽

pp. 120-128

Author(s):

Hai Chen Zheng ◽

Cheng Qin Chen ◽

Lei Tang ◽

Yong Qiang He

Keyword(s):

Landscape Architecture ◽

Field Research ◽

Basic Research ◽

Chongqing Municipality ◽

Public Resources ◽

Construction Strategy ◽

Unique Style ◽

The Village ◽

Spatial Construction ◽

River Bend

The River Bend region of Hou’xi town in Chongqing Municipality is one of the Tujia neighborhoods; the spatial construction of the whole village has been made to face a crisis due to lack of basic research on the traditional settlement space and the interests driven in recent years. The reasons for the disorder and lack of the charm of the new settlement space were analyzed, and the construction policies of traditional settlements were combed based on field research from the perspective of Architecture and Landscape Architecture by the methods of combining quantitative and qualitative. The conclusion shows that the village building should respect and protect their traditional styles; the problems what the current village construction face are solved through the integration of the layout of public resources, the improvement of the traffic situation, the construction of the unique style and the transformation of the refinement.

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A Case of Open and Shut: The Five Thresholds in 1 Samuel 1:1-7:2

Biblical Interpretation ◽

10.1163/092725609x12590721660227 ◽

2010 ◽

Vol 18 (2) ◽

pp. 137-157

Author(s):

Christopher Meredith

Keyword(s):

Samuel 1 ◽

The World ◽

1 Samuel ◽

Spatial Construction

AbstractThough scholars have occasionally noted various parings of the five thresholds of 1 Samuel's first six chapters, the overall spatial construction of the text has generally been neglected. This article argues that the five doors form a spatially organised schema that structures both the text and the described universe, it assesses how the text socially (re) produces space within this matrix and poses questions as to how spatial dialectics and character interaction might collude in the processes of constituting and reconstituting the world as marked out by these thresholds.

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Sustainable development as a trigger for new architectural and spatial solutions

E3S Web of Conferences ◽

10.1051/e3sconf/201913503020 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 135 ◽

pp. 03020

Author(s):

Egor Belash

Keyword(s):

Energy Efficiency ◽

Sustainable Development ◽

Ecological Approach ◽

Spatial Structures ◽

Professional Issues ◽

Functional Program ◽

Environmental Friendliness ◽

The Moment ◽

Spatial Construction ◽

Standard Solutions

Architecture acquires its relevance at the moment when the architect shifts his attention from specific architectural issues about space, composition, functional program, etc. to something that goes beyond professional issues. He begins to think about architecture from the perspective of other disciplines, for example, from the perspective of sustainable development and ecology. These changes give rise to new spatial solutions that could not have arisen if the architect had not changed his way of thinking. Ecology is already used by some architects not only as a way to make the building more efficient, but it allows to find a new basis of thinking about architecture, where the shape and space of the building are subject to energy efficiency, environmental friendliness and adaptability. The goal of the article is to identify the methods of generating new architectural and spatial structures in the buildings of modern architectural firms that arose because of changing in the terminological apparatus of thinking about architecture based on an ecological approach. Several illustrative projects are considered in the work and two types of spatial construction, conditionally called natural and artificial, are revealed on their example. These two methods of shaping stem from the ecological approach and enter into an interesting dialogue, which is expressed in new non-standard solutions for shape of a building.

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Producing Space and Locality Through Cultural Displays

Space and Culture ◽

10.1177/1206331216643784 ◽

2016 ◽

Vol 20 (1) ◽

pp. 81-93 ◽

Cited By ~ 2

Author(s):

Laura Donnelly

Keyword(s):

General Public ◽

Cultural Complexity ◽

Production Of Space ◽

Musical Performances ◽

French Government ◽

Cultural Negotiation ◽

Spatial Construction

The cultural complexity—and potential for identity building—of museums and cultural displays can be potentially powerful spaces of cultural negotiation; in a postcolonial or diasporic setting, the production of locality through cultural displays can serve as a home surrogate (albeit temporarily) for deterritorialized peripheral subjects. However, when these productions (whether they be museums, festivals, or other events of representation) are commoditized and sponsored by socially dominant groups (such as the French government), so that outsiders (nondiasporic people, i.e., the general public) can consume them, what kinds of interactions and clashes can take place? This article aims to answer this question, through the examination of space in a French Antillean festival in Paris: Rue Créole, illustrating the production of locality in Rue Créole through the spatial construction of the venue, and then by examining the production of space and its implications in the festival’s musical performances. Ultimately, I argue that in postcolonial situations, socially produced space can result in polyrhythmic, performatively doubled ensembles and that this in itself is a mark of colonial relation.

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“Once I’m there I can find out where I am”

Ethnologies ◽

10.7202/1026145ar ◽

2014 ◽

Vol 34 (1-2) ◽

pp. 59-89 ◽

Cited By ~ 3

Author(s):

John Bodner

Keyword(s):

Identity Formation ◽

Urban Landscape ◽

Research Participants ◽

Everyday Practices ◽

Key Aspects ◽

Spatial Construction ◽

Subsistence Practices

Contemporary folklorists working on place have increasingly highlighted power and conflict as key aspects of spatial construction and the concomitant identity formation this practice provides. Utilizing this perspective and building on the work of social geographers’ research on the homeless I document the ways in which urban spatial regimes structure everyday practices of a street kid community in downtown Toronto. Utilizing the distinction between prime and marginal space to build an ecological map of the urban landscape I argue that my research participants’ utilization of de Certeau’s tactic of temporal manipulation claim public microsites for subsistence practices but reproduce their own esoteric subculture within marginal or refuse spaces that constitute a distinct backstage which rarely appears in the literature.

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