What is reality and spacial correlations within architecture ... can one space be within another or be another and can one flirt the middle or between realities ? Between the occurrence of a Gestalt - Shift.
Found a great article by Robert Wesley on http://www.roangelo.net/logwitt/gestalt-shift.html
"There are [at least] two ways to do this, and the switch between the two is called a 'Gestalt shift'. It is not a voluntary shift, although one can try to bring it about."
"If I fix my eyes first on the corners 'a' and only glance at 'b', 'a' appears in front and 'b' behind, and vice versa." (Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus 5.5423, tr. Ogden)
It is the visual and spacial experience of the first seeing something in a particular way and then another. The shift between two realities / realms is called the Gestalt Shift.
"Gestalkt is a German word for 'shape' or form" in English it can refer to wholeness or complete. Thus, a 'form shift' is: an involuntary perceptual jump from one shape or form or pattern or "visual space" to another, e.g. from the duck-shape to the rabbit-shape. By 'Gestalt shift' we may mean: seeing a single pattern now as this, now as that: e.g. now the duck, now the rabbit; this is an involuntary visual shift from first one "aspect" (Wittgenstein-Anscombe's word) or form/shape to then another "aspect" or form/shape, without the pattern itself changing: all that changes is our perception of the pattern: asked to draw now the duck, now the rabbit, we will produce identical drawings.
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