Compresión y expansión: análisis de su implementación en espacios culturales para condicionar los patrones de movimiento del usuario y la organización espacial

Abstract

This paper analyzes the compression and expansion configured in cultural spaces through formal operations, as these spatial transformations are capable of directly affect the user’s displacement patterns, the distribution of activities, and their length of stay within each zone, define and structure the experience of each user´s journey through the architectural space, and allow certain displacements to be shaped according to the intentions that exist regarding how the user moves and inhabits within the space. The study is developed through a comparative analysis of three cultural projects, both local and international, of different scales and contexts, insofar as these cases allow for the establishment of relationships between different ways of configuring and articulating space, enable the identification of design strategies that condition and guide user flow throughout the sequence of spaces, and establish operations based on compression and expansion that are applicable to different contexts of architectural intervention.