ON LOGGIAS, ENTRANCES, HALLS, AND ROOMS, AND THEIR SHAPES.
Loggias are usually built on the front and the back of the house and, if they are built in the middle, then there is only one, or, if at the sides, two.
The entrances are, as it were, public spaces and serve as a place where those waiting for the master to come out of his lodgings can stand to greet him and do business with him, and they are the first part (beyond the loggias) which anyone entering the house is presented with. Halls are designed for parties, banquets, as the sets for acting out comedies, weddings, and similar entertainments, and so these spaces must be much larger than the others and must have a shape thaw I’ll be as capacious as possible so that many people can gather in them comfortably and observe what is going on.
Rooms must be distributed at either side of the entrance and the hall, the reason is that if the rooms on one side are made large and those on the other side small, the former will be more capable of resisting the load because of the thickness of their walls, while the latter will be weaker, causing grave problems that will in time ruin the whole building.
Rooms are built with either a vault or a ceiling; if with a ceiling, the height from the pavement to the joists will be the same as the breadth and the rooms above will be a sixth less in height than those below.
DIMENSIONS OF DOORS AND WINDOWS.
One cannot give a certain and predetermined rule covering the heights and breadths of the main doors of buildings or the doors and windows of rooms; so, the architect must build the principal doors to match the size of the building, the type of patron, and tithing that must be brought in and out. windows must not be made broader than a quarter of the length of the rooms nor narrower than a fifth and their height should be made two squares and a sixth of their breadth. Because rooms in houses are made large, medium, and small, the windows must still remain the same size in a given order or story; when calculating the dimensions of these windows I like very much those rooms which are two-thirds longer than their breadth; that is, if the breadth is eighteen feet then the length should be thirty.
ON THE DECORUM OR SUITABILITY THAT MUST BE MAINTAINED IN PRIVATE BUILDINGS.
One must describe as suitable a house which will be appropriate to the status of the person who will have to live in it and of which the parts will correspond to the whole and to each other. for great men and especially those in public office, houses with loggias and spacious,
ornate halls will be required, so that those waiting to greet the master of the house or task him for some help or a favor can spend their time pleasantly in such spaces; similarly, smaller buildings of lesser expense and ornament will be appropriate for men of lower status.
In order that houses may be suitable for family use—for, if they are not suitable their chances of praise would be very slight and they would deserve the harshest criticism—one must take great care not only with the most important elements.
Small rooms should be divided up to create even smaller rooms where studies or libraries could be located, as well as riding equipment and other tackle which we need every day and which would be awkward to put in the rooms where one sleeps, eats, or receives guests. Time. But the large rooms should be distributed with the medium-sized, and the latter with the small rooms.
SAMI MOHAMMED 1001746306
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