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In architecture, colour and light can make a building look bigger, smaller, more attractive and even emphasize its positive or negative aspects, depending on how do you use them, like the Kremlin building in the Red Square, Russia; the use of colours and how the natural light falls on it make you feel its political relevance, you feel that you are in an iconic place. In contrast, in the Architecture Island, we found this brown building in the left of the picture that looks boring and doesn’t tell what the building has inside, the same as the other house.

Also, texture can help to create a specific effect in the buildings or decorative stuff, in this case, the objects floating in this sort of lake next to the sea in the Architecture Island gives us a sensation of infinity and they establish a relationship with the building next to them, marking the place and creating a specific architectural language in the zone.

Now, about rhythm, is very important to say the repetition of certain elements in the place creates a sensation of infinity or emphasizes the perspective of something you want to mark, the final destination of a walk, as we see is the case of this square in the Architecture Island, where this repetition of the green elements creates a rhythm an guides us to the auditorium in the back.

In vertical and horizontal circulation, we have two interesting examples: To finish, we found the scale in the buildings. It’s important to separate public spaces from private ones, that’s the reason because in public spaces we found heights bigger than 3meters, it makes people feel that they’re not into a closed box, but in private spaces, there are simple heights that wants to create a comfortable ambient to make you feel that you can stay there.
 * The vertical one, the Eiffel Tower in Paris. Its entrance is an open and public space and as we’re going up, the volume starts getting smaller, separating the public spaces from the private ones (the restaurant on top). It has stairs and an elevator.
 * The horizontal ones, both in the Architecture Island. These two buildings are floating in the air. They have runways that connect the levels and long spaces inside them, that give us the perspective of infinity or a view that makes us feel that the sea and the sky are the same.