Positive space is common in natural wholes where both figures and interstitial spaces form positive shapes, as in bubbles, crazing, and crystal growth.

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• Outdoor space is positive when it is shaped, just as a room is shaped.claim0.815
  Fundamental definition of positive space as room-like enclosure.
• The very same positive space which creates a truss's beauty also creates its structural stability and good structural behavior.claim0.802
  Direct connection between aesthetic quality and engineering performance.
• The very same principles (positive space, alternating repetition, powerful centers) apply at every scale, from ornament to land and building structure.claim0.799
  Universality of the geometric principles across scales.
• Life and living structure will appear in the world inevitably because the mathematical way space gives rise to structure necessarily reinforces wholeness as part of its most normal evolution.claim0.796
  Alexander's strongest ontological claim: living structure is not probabilistically improbable but mathematically necessary given the principle of unfolding wholeness
• Good shape arises in many natural systems such as leaves, bones, and Chladni patterns, where a strong center is intensified by minor centers.claim0.796
• Always, you are trying to make positive space.claim0.789
  Guiding principle for arranging structures in a garden.
• Structure-preserving transformations that continually modify wholeness slowly cause space to be filled with unfolded I-like centers.claim0.788
  Proposition 3 of the Mid-Book Appendix; the claim linking the mathematical process of unfolding to the emergence of I-likeness in natural and built structures.
• POSITIVE SPACE appears in multiple clusters in both 4 and 5 cluster groupingsfinding0.787
  Observation that property 'Positive Space' appears in clusters 2 and 4 (4-cluster) and 3 and other (5-cluster).