Architectural Scale Learning Module

Initially, one of the most difficult conceptions for students of architecture to grasp is that of scale. How does one judge the experience of a particular space from photographs or drawings unless there is a tangible point-of-reference.

For example, if I told you that the whole of the Athenian acropolis could easily fit within the space of the UA mall, would you believe this to be a true statement? And if I told you that Piazza St. Peter's with its Basilica in Rome would be much larger, would you know if this were true? How big do you think that the Parthenon is compared with Old Main?

In order to create this foundation, the honors students have worked on an interactive website to allow us to test these notions of scale.

The first prototype was built by Joseph Boudreaux, Senior Support Systems Analyst at CCIT, University of Arizona, with the help of the Fall 2002 honors students in the Architecture and Society course at the University of Arizona. [Kelly Brink, Justin Cofield, Erin Faubion, Liz Fausett, Bryce Furlong, Ryan Hawke, Ben Kramer, Shelby MacDonald, Katie MacFarland, Ioana Parvan, and Adrienne Stone]

The second prototype , based on the first prototype was built by Michael Garrison.
9 October 2003. Please try it out, and send any comments to: nequette@u.arizona.edu. If the page doesn't seem to load, and your computer doesn't prompt you to do so, you may need to go to this site to load flash player: http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer

The Architecture Project
University of Arizona
Wednesday 27 November 2002
nequette@u.arizona.edu

http://architecture.arizona.edu/courses/arc103/trad103
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