When you are initially laying out a floor plan for a new build house for example, do you use classic proportions (even when the house is designed in the modern style), or do you use the sizes of materials available and then let this determine the room proportions etc?
What do you think about the golden mean in general? If you don't use it, then how do you retain the aesthetic balance in your elevation?
Voronoi and Delauney algorithms aren't really proportioning systems. They're decomposition algortithms that let you divide and bound volumes or surfaces according to specific mathematical rules.
The Plastic Number is a transcendental constant (similar to Phi, Pi, e, etc.) discovered by the architect/monk/mathematician Dom Hans Van der Laan in the early 20th century. What's particularly interesting about it is that it shows up a lot in empirical studies of human perception of spatial and compositional relationships.
For new construction, if you are not using a four foot module, then you are wasting the clients money and all you care about is form. All the fancy schmancy parametric designs don't meant shit unless you change the contract, which no architect has done, which means you can actually hit the print button to build it.
I, personally, always use the Golden Verinoi Vitruvian Proportion Module.
Proportion may be in the eye of the beholder, but our eyes, and most importantly, our brains were generated by largely-shared DNA code. We are hardwired from birth to find certain geometries beautiful.
I had contractor / developer once who demanded that floor plans, sections and elevations for a house be defined by the proportion of a sheet of plywood ( 4' x 8' ) or portions thereof. He didn't like cutting much and hated excess scrap on site. All his houses kind of look the same! haha.
Proportion can be applied in elevation, and is probably more easily perceived in the vertical plane. Think about Greek temples: while the plan layouts tended to adhere to a rigorous geometry, the proportions of the columns (vertical obviously), and the spacing between them, received the most attention in the classical treatises.
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Architects - Which proportions do you use in your designs?
When you are initially laying out a floor plan for a new build house for example, do you use classic proportions (even when the house is designed in the modern style), or do you use the sizes of materials available and then let this determine the room proportions etc?
What do you think about the golden mean in general? If you don't use it, then how do you retain the aesthetic balance in your elevation?
What about window proportions etc?
If it's not a Voronoi or Delauney diagram, it's not really worth looking at.
Oh, yes the Delauney protocol is essential for exact decomposition, however many believe that the Lejeune does have practical applications.
Van Der Laan's Plastic Number, bitchez.
Interesting. Thanks for the replies.
I don't really understand the above though and was looking for something slightly more basic and simplified.
Voronoi and Delauney algorithms aren't really proportioning systems. They're decomposition algortithms that let you divide and bound volumes or surfaces according to specific mathematical rules.
The Plastic Number is a transcendental constant (similar to Phi, Pi, e, etc.) discovered by the architect/monk/mathematician Dom Hans Van der Laan in the early 20th century. What's particularly interesting about it is that it shows up a lot in empirical studies of human perception of spatial and compositional relationships.
For new construction, if you are not using a four foot module, then you are wasting the clients money and all you care about is form. All the fancy schmancy parametric designs don't meant shit unless you change the contract, which no architect has done, which means you can actually hit the print button to build it.
I, personally, always use the Golden Verinoi Vitruvian Proportion Module.
What is the Golden Verinoi Vitruvian Proportion Module?
it's this.
I've always found 36-24-36 to be the most pleasing proportions.
0.70 WHR FTW.
gee wharton....you take the fun out of life
i use whatever i can buy at home depot
i have to support gwharton on the issue of .7 being the ideal ratio.
proportion is discerned in the educated eye, not the math.
Word to Mr. Ward.
No mention of masonry dimensions? Yeah, okay, that's probably for the better, yo!
proportion is discerned in the educated eye, not the math.
i think uneducated people can discern their own preferred proportions as well.
also, i think the educated eye prefers .7. reference wikipedia or this thing which looks like something educated people would have put together.
I've always found 36-24-36 to be the most pleasing proportions
yeah? only if she's 5 foot 3 ...
uhhhh. Sorry.
i prefer length to width, myself
35.5 - 24 - 34 and 5'7"
Close enough, yo!
Proportion may be in the eye of the beholder, but our eyes, and most importantly, our brains were generated by largely-shared DNA code. We are hardwired from birth to find certain geometries beautiful.
Nature by Numbers:
http://vimeo.com/9953368
I had contractor / developer once who demanded that floor plans, sections and elevations for a house be defined by the proportion of a sheet of plywood ( 4' x 8' ) or portions thereof. He didn't like cutting much and hated excess scrap on site. All his houses kind of look the same! haha.
Your contractor must have taken lessons from R.M. Schindler!
One of the original 4'-0" modular designers!
Fibonacci Series!! biches!
you mathemetic proportion folks may appreciate this:
Proportion can be applied in elevation, and is probably more easily perceived in the vertical plane. Think about Greek temples: while the plan layouts tended to adhere to a rigorous geometry, the proportions of the columns (vertical obviously), and the spacing between them, received the most attention in the classical treatises.
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