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Daylight is constantly changing and it cannot be  controlled by the architect. However it can be used to create different spatial effects by changing the size and location of its openings. There are three main openings from which light can enter a room: The bright open hall. Consists of just a roof supported by columns. offers a variety of lighting effects in different parts of the room. To most people good light means much light.But the quantity of the light is not as important as the quality of the light.A front light is considered poor light because it gives minimum shadow,  no plastic effect and poor textural effect. The room with the skylight.It is closed in all the sides and opened at the top. It can be planned so the light is equally good in all parts of the room. One of the most important examples is the Pantheon. The room with the light entering from the side. This is the most common type of room. A typical example are Dutch houses. Light comes from differen...

In his book Experiencing Architecture, Rasmussen gives examples of buildings with a great influence in architecture and in understanding scale and proportion. The most important were Le Courbusier's house in Garches and Villa Foscari designed by Palladio. He compares them by emphasising their different ways in proportion and organisation, but also by showing their similarities. Scale is a concept which refers to the way we perceive or judge the size of something compared to a reference standard or to the size of something else and the proportional relationship between two sets of dimensions. Scale is also a mathematical relationship between an object and a measurable quantity. In architecture scale is used to specify the relationship between the drawing and the actual building. Visual Scale refers to how big or small something appears to be in relation to its normal size Hierarchical scale It refers to the use of size in order to communicate the differences in importance.(...