ABSTRACT
Architecture, by enclosing space within the public realm, physically obstructs views and diminishes the urban dweller’s intuitive understanding of their physical and social environment. Architecture by its physical nature cannot be wholly transparent but can gain a transparent relationship to its surroundings by its responsive surfaces, intuitive program and clarity of form. Transparency as the substance of light is the ability of the architecture’s solids and voids to reveal light information and it is this information that simultaneously connects us, consciously and subconsciously, to the specificity of a local context and the astonishingly expansive nature of the universe.
