Space-Scale

**__SPACE-SCALE ARCHITECTURE__**



**__SPACE IN ARCHITECTURE__** Architecture as we know it is the branch of design that is responsible for human-scale space, the spaces created by buildings,houses, squares, etc. are the elements that relationship with people.There fore,the spatiality that is generated or created through architecture (external and internal spaces) is that man lives on a daily basis. Space is the essential element of architecture, architecture itself is a space that has been modified in order to satisfy man's needs. Scale is the perception of a space that has been transformed by man. There is a unique relationship between architecture, man and space, the space becomes a way or another in the vicinity of those events that society develops and for that, man is the only being with the capacity and ability to adapt these existing natural means to create spaces.

 **__SCALE IN ARCHITECTURE__** Scale is the size of objects compared to something that serves as a reference. Proportion speaking at the same time the proper relationship of one element to another. This term comes from the hand at all times with architecture as this is the tool to reach and architecture meets the needs of people, answering their design these human dimensions.

Proportion is crucial for architects since it provides an harmonious combination of every single element of the structure. "Without symmetry and proportion there can be no principles in the design of any temple; that is, if there is no precise relation between its members as in the case of those of a well shaped man." - Vitruvius. Vitruvius, whom was himself a Roman architect, thought of proportion in terms of unit fractions.

**__LOUVRE MUSSEUM / Paris__**





These are images of the Louvre Museum in Paris, France. We can consider as a prime example French to portray the theme of spatiality and scaleas to what architecture exposes.

This urban space responds to the macro scale of the city through its volume and its dimensions,so that appropriate and perceptually is pleasing to the eye of visitors, just as happens with the internal scale, space and internal distribution of the museum are at scales that match the architectural relationship with the user,in this case the man.

The spatiality also has to do with the scale in both situations (externaland internal). In this example we can see that the architecture responds differently to the outside of spatiality, in this case a larger scale and spatial organization on a smaller scale.