Texture

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Definition of texture:
Texture is that specific quality of a surface wich result for the tridimensional surface.

Everything, including works of art, has a texture or surface. Texture can be rough, bumpy, slick, scratchy, smooth, silky, soft, prickly, the list is endless.

Types of texture:
They are two basic types of texture, tactile textures: is real and can be felt by touch and visual texture, is seen by the eye. All tactile textures provides visual textures as well, on the other hand visual textures can be real or illusory.

Some artists apply color with short, choppy brushstrokes to create rough texture.

Others prefer hard, cold, and smooth textures. Some materials, such as granite, can be both rough and rocky, or smooth and polished. Coarse, scaly textures can be found on certain animals like lizards, and artists sometimes try to copy those type of textures working with different materials.

What is it that texture describes of an object?
The texture describes the surface (roughness or smoothness) of an object. The actual texture of a painting or sculpture may not be at all the same as the "visual texture" that the artist is imitating.

How can texture influence the characteristics of a space?
Our senses of sight and touch are closely connected. Scale, distance and light are important modifing factors in the perception of textures and surface, all material have some degrees of textures.

The fine of the scale or the smaller the pattern, the smoother it appear to be, even rougher textures seen from the distance appear to be relatively smooth.

The relative scale of a texture can affect the apparent shape and position of a plane in space.

In General, they tend to vissualy fill the space in wich they exist.

What is the importance of texture in Architecture ?
Textures can accentuate a plane lenght or width and can also make a plane appear closer, reduce it scale and increase their visual weight.

We can learn to use textures to our advantage and create the desired illusions or sensations in the spaces we build.