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Occupying Language

The notion of “language” is experienced in space through children’s navigation. If the syntax of the space is its physical structure, the semantics of the space is constructed in children’s minds by connecting previous memories when physically moving inside/outside the architecture. Just like the complexity of language, diverse human experience is achieved through elemental, repetitive, sequential architectural elements in multiple scales.