Scale+and+Space

__SCALE AND SPACE__

**SPACE**

 Extension considered independently of anything that can contain, which makesextended objects conceivable and possible.

Place, with the extension or so. room

an amount or a part of the extension, the distance from one thing to another , an interval between two or more objects, such as the space between two stars or twohills. the sound was heard for a mile space

t is one of the first things they teach you in architecture school. It is an experiencethat tells you is the temptation to focus on what is built (walls, floors, windows, doors), but that really counts, what really drives the experience of architecture ... is space.

It's a hard lesson to learn, especially when their opinion , 99% of its work is to design, document and manage the orchestration of building materials ... spaceseems to come free and comes , like it or not.

Viewing architecture as space reminds us that the experience of the built environment is primarily the experience of space boundaries and connections.

Flows space, and is primarily experience "in time " and this story and the order of the connections and boundaries have been described as the poetry of movement. The rate, concentration, contraction and expansion, dark, light, scale, material and color.The raw building blocks in the orchestration of spatial boundaries and connections.

  SCALE Humans interact with their environments based on their physical dimensions, capabilities and limits. The field of anthropometrics (human measurement) has unanswered questions, but it's still true that human physical characteristics are fairly predictable and objectively measurable. Buildings scaled to human physical capabilities have steps, doorways, railings, work surfaces, seating, shelves, fixtures, walking distances, and other features that fit well to the average person. Humans also interact with their environments based on their sensory capabilities. The fields of human perception systems, like perceptual psychology and cognitive psycholog are not exact sciences, because human information processing is not a purely physical act, and because perception is affected by cultural factors, personal preferences, experiences, and expectations. So human scale in architecture can also describe buildings with sightlines, acoustic properties, task lighting, ambient lighting, and spatial grammar that fit well with human senses. However, one important caveat is that human perceptions are always going to be less predictable and less measurable than physical dimensions. Human scale in architecture is deliberately violated:
 * for monumental effect. Buildings, statues, and memorials are constructed in a scale larger than life as a social/cultural signal that the subject matter is also larger than life.
 * for aesthetic effect. Many architects, particularly in the modernist movement, design buildings that prioritize structural purity and clarity of form over concessions to human scale. This became the dominant American architectural style for decades. Some notable examples
 * to serve automotive scale. Commercial buildings that are designed to be legible from roadways assume a radically different shape. The human eye can distinguish about 3 objects or features per second. A pedestrian steadily walking along a 100-foot (30-meter) length of department store can perceive about 68 features; a driver passing the same frontage at 30 mph (13 m/s or 44 ft/s) can perceive about six or seven features. Auto-scale buildings tend to be smooth and shallow, readable at a glance, simplified, presented outward, and with signage with bigger letters and fewer words.