Architectural space - a form of cultural and communicative space
The aim of the article is to study the architectural space as a field of communicative space or a means of society existence. The space is a subject of study of multiple sciences. Sociology understands space as a defined substance or individuals, groups of individuals or organizations, connected by certain relations, or a force field generated by the interacting individuals and their actions, but which at the same time has a special system quality those individuals lack. The social space could be found in an individual only in a form of particular elements acquired during socialization period - that is social roles and values. Geography explores the concept of "space" as a part of the geographical images concept. Cultural Studies discusses the concept of space in the context of the concepts of "cultural space" or "socio-cultural space". Nowadays the cultural space is being understood as a variety or models and ideals of human activity or the manner of man's existence in the culture, or the life form of culture itself, or the controller of the "cultural spaces" interaction. The semiotic concept explains that space cannot exist without a history. That means that while the men acts, lives, changes environment around them, the space exists, but as soon as man-made objects are removed from their natural surrounding environment, the space disappears. The author understands the cultural communicative space as the system of relations and types of interactions that occur in any culture, depending on the place and time of its existence. The nature, form and place of emerging interactions is changing throughout the history of mankind. These changes are what set the basis for the society living environment formation, both physically and spiritually. The art in general and architecture in particular - is a form of this process' expression. Architecture, like no other art form, is most closely connected with human life. It gives people an opportunity to organize their life in accordance with their own rules by creating around them residential and non-residential space. Within the context of the theory of communication architecture does not imply a connection with real objects, it plays a role of the real object itself and serves as a sign, which is being operated by an individual. The author comes to a conclusion that the architectural structure and its communicative function are realized through a set of actions which are assumed in it, and that these actions define the semantic field of architectural space, allowing a person, group or society to configure and implement certain rules of existence and interaction.