Space is the absence of mass. Light influences space through the manner in which it defines mass as form. The lighting of form to reveal shape, surface texture and colour generates the ambience of a space.

The relationship between light and space therefore dictates not only our visual perception of the world around us but also the way we feel. Light can make space feel warm or cool. It can make it feel open or closed - airy or intimate. Space is regulated by light.

In nature the sky is space composed of light. Within a building that same space is captured, its shape defined and its light drawn from outside. After dark that same space is re-defined by man-made light that comes from within to shine out into infinite darkness.

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