"Natural is from geometry consisting in uniformity, that is equality and proportion.” By Colin Rowe
Introduction
Architecture is defined as the art
and science of designing and erecting buildings. A building must be measured by
the standards of its own period rather than various types of buildings as they
have evolved through history. Throughout the process of design, there are some
steps in which architects have to make decision for creating functional and
also perfect building. Dimensions, distances and proportions can be changed as
many times as they want according to the different tools used, leading they to a
more perfect building. Spatial geometry, proportion and organization have been
central debate in architecture for many centuries, but their hierarchical
relationships among them have varied.
What is the role of proportion and organization in
architecture today? Are proportion and organization necessary for human
inhabitation and functioning; are they compositional strategies of drawing and
design; some combination of these; or something else?
Proportion
Proportion is a central principle of architecture theory and
an important connection between mathematics and art. It is the sight influence
of the relationships of many objects and spaces that make up a structure to
another. These relationships are control by standard unit of length known as “module”.
The English author
Henry Wotton translated ‘de Architectura’, which was written by a Raman
architect – Vitruvius in 1624, and understand his three conditions of a good
building to be commodity (usefulness), firmness (solidity or strength) and
delight (beauty). Proportion plays an important role in all three, as it
provides guidelines for make useful spaces, for design structural systems and
create an aesthetically pleasing environment. The proportion of a space can
change how users feel and it can affect whether a building appears welcoming threating.
Organization
Organization Architecture has two very different meanings:
1.
Organizational space: The effect of the spatial
environment on humans in and around organizations.
2.
Organizational design: The founding of roles,
processes and formal reporting relationships in an organization.
Organizational space
It describes on how spatial environment effect on health,
mind and behavior of humans in and around organizations. Interdisciplinary is a
center view of research. It draws from management, organization and architecture
added with knowledge such as environmental psychology, social medicine or
spatial science. Thus, it may be regarded as a special field of ability of
organization studies and change management (people) applied to architecture.
Organizational design
It defined as a metaphor provides the framework through
which an organization aims to realize its core qualities as specified in its
vision statement. Organizational design modernization of an operating mode. It
provides the infrastructure into which business processes are arranged.
For me, proportion and organization play an important role
nowadays. It can balance between structures, spatial quality and practicality.
Casestudy
Hong Kong and Shanghai Bank
This building is designed by a
British architect, Norman Foster in 1986 and it function as commercial offices.
It located along the
southern side of Statue Square near the location of the old City Hall, Hong Kong. Aim for this building is simple:
to create the best bank building in the world. To create the best building,
Foster had applied concept of symmetry and proportion into it. Through a fine
process including the involvement of Feng Shui geomancer, Foster addresses the
nature of banking in Hong Kong and how it should be expressed in built form.
Foster created a forty-seven-story
rectangular prism with its long sides oriented to the views which mechanical
and service functions close off the short east and west elevations. The mast
structure provides drastic move, pushing the services cores to the perimeter.
This affect it create deep plan floors around a ten-story atrium.
“Proportion
Provokes Sensation.” By Le Corbusier
Conclusion
In my
opinion, I think that proportion and organization can work together perfectly.
It is very important to design a space by using proportion and organization. A
good design have to take consideration on both.