Articles in the theory of architecture Category
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The Aesthetic Landscape Theory about Visual, Yoshinobu Ashihara
D/H and W/D Proportions of the Townscape
An important aspect of townscape composition depends on the ratio of street width to building height. These proportions, using D for the distance between buildings on both sides of the street, and H for the height of the adjacent buildings.
When D/H < 1, the space grows crowded and cramped
When D/H = 1, a balance is achieved between height and distance
As D/H grows larger, the space becomes more open
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Esthetic Purposes of Color, Waldron Faulkner. Color serves many esthetic purposes in the design of buildings.
It creates an atmosphere. A bright color scheme for a building tends express gaiety and excitement; a quiet scheme may express dignity and repose.
It suggests either unity or diversity. A uniform color scheme contributes a sense of unity, while a varied color scheme gives a feeling of diversity.
It expresses the character of materials. If a building has a red tile roof, gray stone walls, and brown wood trim, the essential character of each …
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Theories of Urban Spatial Design, Roger Trancik
Figure Ground Theory
The city as a clearly defined system of solids and voids. The building coverage is denser than the exterior space, thereby giving shape to the public openings. (1) Figure-ground theory: In this approach, the starting point for an understanding of urban form is the analysis of relationships between building mass and open space. Figure-ground analyses are powerful tools for identifying the textures and patterns of the urban fabric as well as problems in its spatial order, but can lead to a static …
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The Problem of Urban Design, Roger Trancik
Lost Space
Lost space is the leftover unstructured landscape at the base of high-rise towers or the unused sunken plaza away from the flow of pedestrian activity in the city.
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Concise Townscape Theory, Gordon Cullen
Serial Vision
Serial Vision is to walk from one end of the plan to another, at a uniform pace, will provide a sequence of revelations which are suggested in the serial drawings opposite, reading from left to right.
