The visual plane in the immediate background is a dome, whose shape seems to continue beyond its boundaries. There is an unusual relation of inside and outside space. There are few boundaries at right angles. Even if one is standing still, the shapes seem deformed as though the observer ran past normal rectilinear shapes at a high speed. Gehry may be expanding and enlarging the effects of curved space normally only seen on the astronomical scale.
Angles are bent, walls curve, and the eye is led from one room to another.
Gehry's use of massive geometric forms juxtaposed with glass walls and windows provide a situation for a type of photographic focus experience, an eye mindedness. The mind feels as though it is a physical body actually moving through the space. One views the massive shapes, simple and lacking in detail, as foreground, then is immediately projected to a very distant view through a glass plane in the wall. Gehry's visualizations show forms that appear to be compressed, stretched, and turned as though caught by a camera in the act of motion. Although many other examples may be cited to demonstrate this crucial developement in our architectural environment, the buildings described above and in the accompanying illustrations may serve to increase our awareness and understanding of the basic coherence of our modern spatial world.