ABSTRACT
This chapter shows that exploration of the spatial body can generate new ways to think and learn about architecture. It explains space and the role of space in relation to architecture. The chapter explores the spatial body as a concept through which to learn about architecture as a spatial field inhabited by bodies. It discusses the sequential exercises translated from the conceptual basis into a teaching toolkit that seeks to develop an exploration of architectural space through the idea of the spatial body. In order to engender thinking about architectural space, a series of design exercises were developed. In the first phase of the exercises the intention was to remove students from preconceptions about architecture. The objective of the pedagogy was to introduce first-year students to space as the condition, phenomenon and substance of architecture. The objective was to experiment with spatial issues in the proto-plan phase of design preparing the foundational platform for the making of architecture.
