scale and propotion

Architecture has been called frozen music because in the same way as music effects on us,our intuition perceives different impacts from the physical world through some simple mathematical proportion. But a composition in architecture is made based on some principles such as balance, rhythm, proportion and scale, emphasis, unity and variety, and the result of the composition can not be that easily caught from this intuition of ours. The effect it is not spontaneous since all the principles mentioned create complexity.

To understand, but even apply the concept of scale in architecture, size of an element should be compared to a reference and based on that reference that it has been chosen, through visual, scale messages of importance or other specifications are being communicated.

Proportions, as a comparison between parts of a whole, get used as another element to create some kind of regulation in the composition. A proportion that we find in great historical architecture as well, is the golden section. Golden section has no similar proportion in music and for sure it is not the only proportion that should be applied in architecture, but after the exact measures that this proportion requires, an ideal form gets perceived.

In order to produce according to what people want, to make the buildings of functional use, but also to produce massively, human scale also known as the Modular is universally applicable.

Monumental architecture from antiquity is considered beautiful because the smallest details where taken into consideration, but no matter what the scale used was not in harmony with human himself.

The golden section creates harmony between the different parts, so that every part has an identity but still in the overall they blend together perfectly.The same concept used to exist in the past about the human body proportions and the temples were required to be build based on the same perfect proportions. Some kind of order it is necessary in architecture and the regulating lines are essential to bring satisfaction and understanding of what we get to see.