Inside, the kitchen, the dining area, the living room and the television nook would be one continuous space, curving around an outdoor courtyard with a patio.
"The Sala Grande has the great advantage that it has no balcony and is a single continuous space," Mr. Baratta said.
The two are closely related because inflation, the most popular explanation of our big bang, can create an infinite volume by stretching continuous space indefinitely.
Bennett the architect was an avowed modernist, as shown in the sleek finishes and blended, continuous spaces of the Haggiag apartment.
"They explore like few others the phenomenal properties of continuous space, lightness, transparency and materiality to create a subtle synthesis," the jury citation said.
With the help of Alejandro Cantu, his gutsy, hypersensitive cinematographer, Mr. Hernández circles and scrutinizes his actors, maneuvering them in and out of elaborate traveling shots that dissolve continuous space.
"Realistically, since we are not going to get back a lot of forest, we have to fool nature by creating the same genetic diversity as if the animals were moving around in one large, continuous space," says Mr. Melnick.
Between the Chilean beginning and the Irish end there is a tunnel in white honeycomb plastic, designed by Diébédo Francis Kéré, which enlarges at its ends into curved openings and nicely fuses two conventional cuboid galleries into a continuous space.
Figure 3 Continuous space: lattice distribution.
