Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped, just as a room is shaped.

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• Positive space in gardens must be created by placing buildings to form positive outdoor spaces, then differentiating them with structures, then allowing natural life to animate further centers.claim0.843
  Operational sequence for creating positive garden space.
• Positive outdoor-space processmethod0.821
  Sequence for generating coherent, shaped outdoor space around a house, giving it living structure.
• Positive space is common in natural wholes where both figures and interstitial spaces form positive shapes, as in bubbles, crazing, and crystal growth.claim0.815
• Always, you are trying to make positive space.claim0.804
  Guiding principle for arranging structures in a garden.
• Positive space creation by building placementmethod0.802
  A method where buildings are sited to form coherent, positive outdoor spaces rather than residual slivers.
• The effort is, at each moment, to make each 'thing' positive. Space is made positive. Mass is made positive. Each element is given a positive and definite form.claim0.800
  Describes the operational essence of the geometric process — making everything a positive, definite entity
• The space in the angle between the wall surface and the overhanging top is itself a center, and must be made as positive and being-like as possible.claim0.795
  Alexander's demonstration that even the negative space beside an overhang requires conscious I-directed attention.
• Make every effort to allow the value of the indoor space—the rooms' tranquility, geometry, peacefulness—as much weight, money, and effort as the outdoors.claim0.791
  Corrective to the common neglect of interior quality.