1、 设计空间的意义设计空间的意义 Meanings of designed spaces 学 部（院）： 建筑与艺术学院 专 业：艺术设计（环境艺术设计） Since the accession of design knowledge to the ranks of modern university departments, the built environment, which represents one of the main areas of study of this knowledge, has endured a huge fragmentation according to
2、the analytical model of modern inquiry. It too finds itself fragmented into several disciplinary fields,most often erected into competing silos:product design, graphic design, interior design, architectural design, urban design, landscape design, and so on. This parceling of logic in itself can be q
3、uite beneficial to the extent that it ensures a certain depth of thinking when the time comes to consider objects of limited and very specific knowledge. Nonetheless, in its most basic and essential aspects, there is one object of knowledge that continues to elude the understanding and reasoning of
4、all these disciplinary silos. it continues to stand as an obstacle and challenge to all the leak ages of what Henri Raymond (1984) calls“spatial rationality.“ We refer, of course, to the occupant, the individual who is commonly called the user of the built world: The occupant remains at the heart of
5、 architecture: as a negative, refusing to dwell in theory, and as obstinacy,attaching himself obstinately to housing models that architectural reason has condemned. But he is also at the heart of the problem of spatial rationality:Should we plan without the occupant?How should we plan with him? In a
6、ll of this, the occupants situation and skill can play a major role; we may be permitted to think that this is one the future adventures of reason. (pp.252-253) The Users Obstinacy Refusal to Dwell in Theory For the purposes of this essay, consider a very ordinary urban occurrence: An individual, a city dweller, strolls along Sainte-Catherine Street in Montreal, Canada, on a sunny autumn afternoon and, every so often, stops in front of a store window to examine and admire the objects
