Scale and Proportion
Steen Eller Rasmussen was a danish architect and urban planner that wrote a book about architecture. Although he is a great architect there are some theories that he had written about that i am not 100% agree.I am 100% okay with the part that by human scale we can understand the size of the space when we compare it to the elements whose dimensions are related with our dimensions.I like the idea of using this types of proportions as golden section and regulating lines etc, but i think that this many rules it stops new architect like me to create things that they have in they minds. The golden section is also used in humans. Modular man are cm that were messured in different ways for example how cm is a man when he is sitting etc. By this messurments a architect created a whole building which i am totally not okay. So he accepted the average human height as 183 cm,and everything in that building every wall every door is based on this height. What about me, i am 190 cm and i want a house there but i cant buy it. Or someone that is 150 cm he cant buy a house there because he wont be able to open the door.I think that architects cretae things in uses for different people.Anthropometry was another way of messurment based on human body this time were used just finger,foot and feet.This way was used in Frederik's hospital he thought that leaving 180 cm apart from bed to bed was a good thing.In fact it is but it is a waste of space, you may put 3 beds in a room that your thought that there should be just 2.But i also like Villa stein in Garches cause assymetrical shapes makes object more attractive and different from the traditional things. Even thought that i don't like this much rules i think that golden section is one of the most important section that a architect should follow.
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