Scale and Proportion
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.(...
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