Concavity

"Concavity – presence of a background hill or curving street which exposes further objects to the view."

Kevin Lynch uses the notion of concavity to describe the city scape. The concavity is one of the form qualities which adds the visual scope to the view. The visual features which increase the range and penetration of vision, either actually and symbolically allow for the perception of distant landscape.

This notion adds lots of beauty to the city scape. It introduces the forms which are coherent to the nearest scape. At the same time the silhouette of buildings gets some delicacy and refinement which just naturally derives from the shape of street or from the backgrounging landscape. Just look at the picture below.

The photograph made during holidays in the south of France few years ago. When visiting one of the animateurs of APARE. One of the nicest holidays I remember. And one of the nicest villages as well...