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.

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• Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped, just as a room is shaped.claim0.843
  Fundamental definition of positive space as room-like enclosure.
• Positive space creation by building placementmethod0.839
  A method where buildings are sited to form coherent, positive outdoor spaces rather than residual slivers.
• To treat the gardens as positive — more positive, even, than the buildings themselves — that is the first step.claim0.831
  The inversion of typical priority: garden space should be shaped as strongly as (or stronger than) buildings.
• Seats, fences, and other centers, placed in the landscape to connect the garden with the buildings, will form a continuity of structure between inside and outside.claim0.816
  The function of garden structures as connectors that erase the boundary.
• Always, you are trying to make positive space.claim0.786
  Guiding principle for arranging structures in a garden.
• A truly dynamic structure-preserving process generates layouts in which every single bit of space becomes a living center — streets, lots, gardens, courtyards, housesclaim0.780
  Core claim about the morphological output of the fundamental process applied to neighborhood design.
• Positive space is common in natural wholes where both figures and interstitial spaces form positive shapes, as in bubbles, crazing, and crystal growth.claim0.778
• The more austere forms of buildings also arise from the wholeness that comes from buildings that are near rectangular, to make positive space.claim0.771