Infiltrate and Appear: Binary Discrimination of Landscape Realistic Space and Consciousness Space from the Transparency Perspective

As a unique perspective of the architectural discipline to examine the quality of space, “transparency” originates from cubism painting. When placed in the context of the discipline of landscape architecture, it tries to trace back and separate the adjective “transparent” to “trans-” and “parere”, proposes a binary perspective from “infiltrate” to “appear”, and analyze its extended meaning with the Gestalt tendency of realistic space and consciousness space: to prove that “infiltrate” is the infiltration of the external realistic space, which with spatial stratification, spatial ablation and indeterminacy; while “appear” is the appearance of the inner consciousness space. The core is the complete complement of consciousness space triggered by the infiltration of layered space. Exploring the “transparency” of the landscape realistic space and the consciousness space is a process quality. In the context of the globalization of landscape architecture, the “transparency” is examined as a new vision from the realistic space of the landscape to the conscious space, which implies space experience, spiritual resonance and sublimation of artistic conception. It thus reveals the universal value of transparency from the West to the East, the classical to the avant-garde, the abstract to the empathy, and resonates with people and nature.