(06/08/2019 -17:00)
Ever looked at an item and felt that something was off, something was missing, that it was out of proportion?
Proportion, something that we experience every day, something that if went missing, we’d be perplexed, but we never dwell on its concept. We never thought about the basis of it, or what makes something that’s proportional, proportional.
Ancient Greek ἀναλογία
When it comes to sacred sanctuaries, the Greek related the design back to the most divine creation, the Human.
The core of a Human body is the navel. For if a man lays on his back, with his hands and feet expanded, and a couple of compasses focused at his navel, the fingers and toes of his two hands and feet will contact the perimeter of a circle depicted along these lines.
Furthermore, similarly as the human body yields a roundabout layout, a square figure might be found from it. If we measure from the soles of the feet to the highest point of the head, and afterward apply that measure to the outstretched arms, the broadness will be observed to be equivalent to the tallness, creating a flawlessly square.
Ancient Greek “perfect number”
It was from the individuals from the body that they determined the key thoughts of the measurements which are clearly fundamental in all works, as the finger, palm, foot, and cubit. These they distributed in order to shape the "immaculate number," and as the ideal number the people of yore fixed upon ten.
The mathematicians, in any case, keeping up an alternate view, have said that the flawless number is six, since this number is made out of basic parts which are fit numerically to their strategy for retribution.
Be that as it may, later, seeing that six and ten were them two impeccable numbers, they consolidated the two, and in this manner made the absolute best number, sixteen.
Ancient Columns
In araeostyle sanctuaries, the column ought to be built with the goal that their thickness is one eighth piece of their tallness. In the diastyle, the tallness of a column ought to be marked off into eight and a half parts, and the thickness of the column fixed at one of these parts.
The human body and the Hindu temple
Another ideology that relates the human proportions to the sanctuary, is the Hindu Temple.
The Hindu temple is constructed to resemble the parts of a human lying on his back, with the head pointing towards the west and the feet towards the east.
Without symmetry and extent there can be no standards in the plan of any sanctuary; that is, if there is no exact connection between its individuals, as for the situation of those of a well-molded man.
Bus Stop
Similarly, we consciously apply the proportion rules in our designs. Studying the Human Anthropometrics and expected poses to make sure the design isn’t uncomfortable and functional.
This is easily proven when studying the Space analysis for a bus stop, for example, the bench is designed to fit the sitting people without it being troublesome.
To conclude, Symmetry and Proportion, two fundamental concepts, if not present, our design would be awkward and incompetent.
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