Proportion & Organization
Proportion and organization in architecture both are always play an important from past until today. Proportion and organization is difference part of thing but there have to be relate. Proportion is a symmetry of a building ,like a human body , building should have his own proportion , and organization is to determine the space.
“stressed the value of proportioning individual spaces, especially relationships between plans and sections of a single space” by Andrea Palladio
Architects define and enclose space, creating bounded areas for human inhabitation, each with a particular geometry, proportion and organization. Spatial geometry define as affects acoustics and views, as well as one’s sense of enclosure or openness. Spatial proportion can be used to imply different uses - a long, low, narrow space.Spatial Organization can determines separation or connection between similar or dissimilar uses, helps to clarify aspects of use.
House NA / Sou Fujimoto Architects
Designed for a young couple in a quiet Tokyo neighborhood, the 914 square-foot transparent house contrasts the typical concrete block walls seen in most of Japan’s dense residential areas. Associated with the concept of living within a tree, the spacious interior is comprised of 21 individual floor plates, all situated at various heights, that satisfy the clients desire to live as nomads within their own home.
Described as “a unity of separation and coherence”, the house acts as both a single room and a collection of rooms. The loosely defined program and the individual floor plates create a setting for a range of activities that can take place at different scales. The house provides spaces of intimacy if two individuals choose to be close, while also accommodating for a group of guests by distributing people across the house.
Sou Fujimoto states, “The intriguing point of a tree is that these places are not hermetically isolated but are connected to one another in its unique relativity. To hear one's voice from across and above, hopping over to another branch, a discussion taking place across branches by members from separate branches. These are some of the moments of richness encountered through such spatially dense living.”
From House NA , Sou Fujimoto designing proportion and organization based on human need he define his building as a tree , the proportion of House Na is like a arrangement of tree , it similar in form to a stacked pile of boxes the internal areas generated by the exterior appearance are set at different elevations. the small rooms within each platform are connected by ladder stairs allowing a free movement through the home’s loosely defined program.The rectangular windows of varied proportions and sizes frame views of adjacent structures while the elimination of solid interior walls encourage unobstructed sight lines to higher and lower spaces. at night, curtains become temporary partitions for privacy and separation.
Colin Rowe state that “ obtain an appropriate understanding of historical precedents, its application, and combine with technologies so it contributes To larger potentialities for innovation and reinterpretation in architecture.”
In my opinion, the Proportion and organization are necessary for human habitation and functioning, from the case study , we can see that how Sou Fujimoto create proportion and the spatial quality of the organization based on human activity ,a building or assembly should be useful and appropriate to human daily life of usage . I think architect designing building need to considers these kind of concept too , the concept can be innovation but the we have to still keeping what the historical teach .
