Texture

Texture is the specific quality of a surface with results of three dimension structure. Texture is most often use to descript the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. It can also be use to describe the character of the surface quality of a familiar materials, such the roughness of stone...
 *  Definition of texture: **



** Types of texture: ** There are two basic types of texture: **- tactile texture: ** is real and can be feel by touch, provide visual texture as well

**- visual texture: ** is seen by the eye. Maybe illusion or real.

 **What is it that texture describes of an object?** The texture describe the relative smoothness or roughness of a surface. Sometimes, the eyes can see and identify the texture of something without touch them, this occurs because the human eye associated the new object with a previous object that have a similar material.

 **How can texture influence the characteristics of a space?** The texture can influence the characteristics of a space, depending on the scale or size of the texture, the distance between the eye and texture, and light that illuminates the texture. If the size of the texture scale is very small, then the wall, table, chair ... with texture look bigger. Ifthe viewer is far from the object with texture, we can find space even bigger. If the light is too bright will see better the details of texture, but it is a less powerful light, then the space is not crisp, you cannot appreciate the texture and can give the illusion of being a wide space.



 **What is the importance of texture in Architecture?** The texture like the light and color is very important in Architecture, because, is the aesthetic part of that we see outside and inside of the building. The texture can explain us the use of a building or which is inside of them, like various museum, that for outside looks like a big sculpture, because inside staying artworks. Even, the texture of a facade can tell us how are feel the people like live or work inside of the building.