Frances to Luis... The placing of multiple tectonic markers located in the land to limit architectural space is an insightful and perhaps unusual technique for designers. If the markers were removed from the land, then presumably no space would be limited, and the architecture would not continue to exist. If marked stuff is removed from the land, as perhaps the particles are removed from their atom or the contents are removed from its container or the surrounding soil is removed from the hole, the empty space may then even fail to remain and exist at all on its own solely alone as stuff. There may indeed be a hint of some fleeting ephemeral aspects and some cerebral ethereal aspects to corporeal tectonic architectures.
You partly wrote in effect by my edits... I believe that any decent architect understands and accepts the following points below and incorporates them into their architectural thinking and work. (a) Architecture can be the manipulation of space through markers, as with monuments and obelisks. (b) Architecture can be the negative space formed by the perimeter of buildings or columns or walls or waterworks or earthworks, such as in plazas; so that architecture is not just the built structure, but is also the space that it encloses and defines, for both the interior and the exterior. (c) Architecture is the manipulation of the negative space both inside and outside the built structure.
