When creating space in a 2-D medium, how do you design for the 3-D reality?

I see people all week drawing and fixing lines, adding color, changing shapes - and the results are sometimes quite beautiful and compelling. It's one thing to work on a computer or even on trace on a table and create interesting forms, patterns, rhythms - whether it's within a campus quad, an urban waterfront, a corporate workplace. But how do you experience that space before it's built?  How do you design for the people who walk through it, or sit to reflect, or have to work with someone right next to them?

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