OBS-INT-001
Vincent Van Duysen — Casa M
space as form
OBS-INT-001
Material Presence
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Vincent Van Duysen
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Walls extend without articulation. Light remains evenly distributed.

space as form

Vincent Van Duysen — Casa M

The plan is organized as a sequence of continuous volumes.

Walls extend without articulation.

Light enters evenly, without emphasis or focal point.

What takes shape?

Form is often associated with objects or surfaces.

Here space itself carries structure.

Volumes connect without articulation.

What takes shape is continuity rather than mass.

Order emerges through restraint.

Structural Concepts

Material Presence
Material asserts physical presence through density, texture, and load.
Volume
The three-dimensional space occupied or enclosed by form.
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