ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that to achieve an optimum integrity between site and context the spatial organisation of site should privilege the notion of sequential reciprocity between the interior of a building and its immediate exteriors, on the one hand, and between the site and its immediate vicinity, on the other. Balanced focus on the spatial settings of interiors and exteriors in any design approach entails giving equal attention to the inside-out, as well as the outside-in relationships. The property of space involves two interconnected references: a property of enclosure - corporeal - and a property of mind - conceptual. Sequential spaces articulate the relationship between inside and outside in terms of time, programme and juxtapositions. A simple example of an architectural device aiding spatial reciprocity is the Venetian window type, as Norberg-Schulz describes, usually located on the corners of a room, which makes visible the water reflections of the canals against the walls.
