MIT OpenCourseWare
The Space Between Workshop
- Instructor
- Prof. Jan Wampler
- Term
- Fall 2004
- Level
- Graduate
- What's inside
- 4 other files · 7 web pages
- Materials open
- MIT OCW
About this course
Source: MIT OpenCourseWare 4.171 The Space Between Workshop, Fall 2004, Prof. Jan Wampler — original course page on ocw.mit.edu ↗. License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. Study order: none is claimed; materials are grouped by MIT's own sections. Taken from MIT's published course files, downloaded from ocw.mit.edu on September 23, 2026. How RedLectern is built.
Materials are grouped the way MIT organized them. A verified, course-wide order has not been established here.
Before you start
Prerequisites are not listed here. Check MIT's own syllabus for this course.
How this course was organized
What's here, and what isn't
- MIT lists a session calendar for this course, but it could not be verified well enough to build a sequence from it — materials are grouped by section instead.
Not included here
1 item from the source could not be safely included:
- MIT's page format for this item wasn't recognized clearly enough to place it safely.
Materials by section
Grouped by section, as MIT organized them. Not sequenced or ordered.
Syllabus
- The nature of the Space Between is best described in the article “The Space Between” Download
- A description of the day to day workings and processes of the studio are described in more detail in “Exploring Prototypes” Download
Assignments
15 images
- The North End of Boston, showing the Space Between in 3D Open ↗
- A diagram of a Roman house from the first century AD Open ↗
- Movement versus layers of structure Open ↗
- A string model showing density versus movement Open ↗
- A diagram of a Spanish villa, a popular courtyard house typology owing to Roman influence Open ↗
- Path versus place, represented in model form Open ↗
- A physical model showing the Space Between Open ↗
- A second version of that model Open ↗
- The same model, against a collage of it's surroundings Open ↗
- The second model, from another view Open ↗
- Circulation cutting through buildings and spaces Open ↗
- An image of the Space Between: A gap between buildings in Boston's North End Open ↗
- An image of the Space Between: A fire escape between buildings in Boston's North End Open ↗
- A closer diagram of the space Open ↗
- A negative space model representing the Space Between Open ↗
Projects
MIT OpenCourseWare, Prof. Jan Wampler, 4.171 The Space Between Workshop, Fall 2004.
License: CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 · Edition: Fall 2004 · Open the original course on OCW ↗
Organized by RedLectern, independent of MIT and not endorsed by MIT.
Per-resource rights are recorded on each resource; All-Rights-Reserved items are link-only, never mirrored.