PROPORTION & ORGANISATION
Architecture is about
assembling materials and spaces. The role of architect is to define the space
as an enclose space, creating bounded areas for human inhabitation each with a
particular geometry, proportion, and organisation that have been central
discourse in architecture for centuries, but their hierarchical relationships
among them have varied.
“To create architecture is to put in order. Put what in order? Function and
objects.” - Le Corbusier
“A machine for living in, an arrangement of interpenetrating volumes,
and spaces, and emanation of space-time.” - Colin Rowe
“Stressed the value of proportioning individual spaces especially relationship
between plans and section of a single space.” - Andrea Palladio
What is P R O P O R T I O N?
Proportion is the
relationship between parts or things. In particular harmonious, proper or desirable
relationships and the balance of symmetry.
What is O R G A N I S A T I O N?
To determine the separation
or connection between similar or dissimilar uses, helps to clarify aspects of
use and establishes similarity or contrast between spaces. In the text given,
Andrea Palladio’s idea on organisation is to place the owner living quarters on
the top level and hiding the less aesthetic parts of the building such as
kitchen and servant quarters. While Le Corbusier highlighted on his planning of
the houses, with mainly focused on the idea of circulation within house.
Nowadays, organisation
reflects spatial environment on the health, the mind, and the behaviour of
human in and around the building itself. For me, proportion and organisation is
necessary for human or people habitation and functioning, as daily basis. Since
the main consideration in design is based on human anthropometric studies, the positioning
of each spaces is the reflection to the circulation of the space in which it
affects the human daily life, since the connection is based on human habitation
and movement. The dimension and location of the elements or spaces will affect
the function of it too. Poor positioning of the space will cause a functional
failure to the building.
CASE
STUDY
NATIONAL MOSQUE of MALAYSIA
Three architect who have awesome teamwork Howard
Ashley, Hisham Albakri and Dato Baharuddin Abu Kassim build a Malaysian
Identity. A mosque for Muslim to pray and concentrate to their God. The best features of the mosque are the 73 meters high minarets
and its 16-pointed star concrete which is its main roof. The main roof's design
was inspired from the idea of an open umbrella while the minarets were like a
folded umbrella. With a huge welcoming entrance and the concrete main roof
utilizes the concept of folding plates in order to obtain larger space at the
main gathering hall, the massive and huge entrance, with large space in
the mosque itself is to me, a very good example to show metaphor of a building
to human body.
Open water courtyard designed for cooling and
ventilation.
Symmetrical plan & elevation
VITRAHAUS / HERZOG &
DE MEURON
The museum's massing consists of few rectangular blocks that are intersect from one another, but the internal spatial organisations deceptively more complex. The museum could cultivate a more refined approach by organising itself into spatial
compartments, each dedicated to, and equipped for, specific function. This shows the organization work with the function of space appropriately.
The circulation of this complex interior arrangement captures the essence of the
design. In a modified display, the architect capitalizes on the resulting transitional areas by giving them programmatic value, expanding landings into reading platforms and bridging
inter-floor gaps with bookshelves. The result is a seamless, continuous journey that meanders through the entirety of the building with stream-like fluidity.
Intersect
between different elements of the building is geometrically driven by proportional relationships, and rotations. The architects use the term 'domestic scale' – the showrooms are reminiscent of familiar residential settings.
The individual 'houses', which have the general characteristics of a display
space, are conceived as abstract elements.
A
good architecture should employ appropriate proportions and organisation for its functions and its particular users, and fulfil bearing capacity of the structure and provide aesthetically building.
In the bottom of my heart, I wanted to
expressed that proportion can be more than numbers that dictated the outcome,
where climatic conditions should be a strong influenced to the proportion of
the building, and also other forces such as site context, cultural aspects and
etc. which I think are far more important than saying whether a building is
symmetrical or not. Whereas organisation, spaces needed good distribution of
space that will contribute to inhabitant’s well-being, and eventually
contribute to good proportions.
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