that it is holding. This may reflect, or generate a design intent that imposes a one moves out from under that suspended obiect, space is expanded pro- new ordering system onto the existing one. may also be a response made portions are relative to the occupant. That creates differences necessary by some incompatibility between the context increased also asone maves and the needs of spatial type and has consequences for sequencing space the design. For instance, the ground surface may be proportioned in a not way that accommodates a particular program, so the act of suspension from expanded space to compressed space and back again What programs might provide an opportunity rnight be housed within the compressed space versus the expanded? Can or sible at the surface to design within a set of dimensions not pos the influence over spatial sequence be used to facilitate a larger transition feasible on an or a spatial need for the continuity ofa plane may not be provide a place of encounter undulating surface. Suspending elements There is also the question of the nature ofthe suspended element. It it less of whether one can also be a means of composing space Regard may be an object suspended to provide a way of controlling these issues, tual field, there element is suspended within a space or above contex- may also be a space itself which incorporates another programmatic type are implications on habitation;the most immediate is that it and possibility for habitation. It forces a consideration for how an occupant creates the opportunity to inhabit the space below the suspended element. moves from below the suspended space into it. All of issues feflect This impacts spatial composition and sequence through the compression decisions of both spatial and formal composition and operation. As an act of and expansion of space. As one moves beneath the suspended object, making, suspending can reflect design intent or guide its conception space is compressed proportions are reduced relative to the occupant. As See also Submerge.