SIZE SCALE PROPORTION Different attitudes towards dimensions

SCALE talks about the sizes of an object in relation to its context or about the size of the drawing or a model in relation to the size in reality

PROPORTION talks about the relation of the dimensions wtihin one object

DRAWINGS AND MODELS ON SCALE The scale of a map ex. Michelin

The scale of a city plan, neighbourhood,…

The scale of a plan of a landscape architect 1/200

The scale of the plans for designing, realisation and presentation of

buildings

1/200 1/100 1/50 1/20 1/5 1/1

SCALE MODELS IN ARCHITECTURE Volumes ex. stone, wood ,foam

Volumes with openings

Exterior and interior equal ex. student work

Only the representation of the interior ex. Caruso Sint_john

SCALE MODELS IN INDUSTRIAL DESIGN

Scale models in alternative material

Dummy

Prototype

SCALE AS AN IMPRESSION OF SIZE

Scale as a means for expressing power and importance

‘Small is beautiful if big is also beautiful’

‘The only acceptable scale is the human scale’

Scale as a means to feel a small space ample

KOW LOON WALLED CITY - HONG KONG First a Chinese military fort

From 1878 on an ungoverned settlement, enclave

1987  33.000 inhabitants on 0,03 KM2 ( ex. 100x 300 M)

1994 Demolishing completed

SIZE IN ARCHITECTURE

‘The space needed for the body is much smaller

than the space needed for the soul’

                                                                                                                                                                                             capsule  hotel  Japan    

Ernst Neufert (1900 – 1986) Bauentwerfslehre; Handbuch für den Baufachmann, Bauherren, Lehrenden und

Lernden

1.  Auflage : Bauwelt – Verlag, Berlin 1936

39., überarbeite Aulage : vieweg + teubner, Wiesbaden 2009, ISBN 978-3-8348-0732- 8

A strange ‘bible’ for designers and architects

The size of a stair in a simple private house -  Angle about 35 ° (too steep or too lazy..)

-  The relation between the vertical and horizontal part of the stair is related to the size of a foot and the length of one step

- Width about 80 CM

- STAIRFORMULA 2 x O + A = 60 to 63 CM

-  O is best less than 19 CM and A is best around 25 CM

- Practical example with O= 17,5, CM and A= 25 CM

PROPORTION IN THE HUMAN BODY

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