SPACE+AND+SCALE

I choose human scale because that is an important theme about scale. People interact with their environment based on some aspects that includes the scale and dimensions. The buildings are made taking in notice all that basic dimensions of the humans, like the steps to the riser of stairs and doorways, seating, shelves, walking distances, etc…Also the human scale can define the sightlines, acoustic properties, task lightning and other aspects of a building.

Human scale in architecture is deliberately violated:
 * § for monumental effect. Buildings, statues, and memorials are constructed in a scale larger than life as a social/cultural signal that the subject matter is also larger than life. The extreme example is the [|Rodina (Motherland) statue] in [|Volgograd] (Stalingrad).
 * § for aesthetic effect. Many architects, particularly in the [|Modernist] movement, design buildings that prioritize structural purity and clarity of form over concessions to human scale. This became the dominant American architectural style for decades. Some notable examples among many are [|Henry Cobb] 's [|John Hancock Tower] in [|Boston], much of [|I. M. Pei] 's work including the [|Dallas City Hall] , and [|Mies van der Rohe] 's [|Neue Nationalgalerie] in [|Berlin].
 * § to serve automotive scale. Commercial buildings that are designed to be legible from roadways assume a radically different shape. The human eye can distinguish about 3 objects or features per second. A pedestrian steadily walking along a 100-foot (30-meter) length of department store can perceive about 68 features; a driver passing the same frontage at 30 mph (13 m/s or 44 ft/s) can perceive about six or seven features. Auto-scale buildings tend to be smooth and shallow, readable at a glance, simplified, presented outward, and with signage with bigger letters and fewer words. This urban form is traceable back to the innovations of developer A. W. Ross along [|Wilshire Boulevard] in Los Angeles in 1920.

This is and excellent example of and statue for monumental effect, is the "Esfera de Caracas" actually placed on the Francisco de Miranda highway. This sculpture represents a memorial construction, promoted by Alicia Pietri de Caldera. Soto tried to implement a way of interact with the artwork with the use illusion of movement, making the viewer who walks around the sculpture to get into the kinetic effect of a piece still This is the caracas palace and is placed in Altamira. This is an example of an aesthetic effect because the architect tried to conform a piece of art, but forgot not just the scale of people, but also the scale of the buildings that surround it. In my opinion this is an autistic edification because its scale doesn´t let it communicate with its environment. It probably was design just thinking about the purity and clarity of it´s forms and those are obvious, but omitting the scale that surround it.

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