Architectural Analysis
Engineering Analysis |
Proportion and Scale
Below is an image of a drawing of the front side of Norwood Hall. A 6' tall woman has been added to the bottom right side of the image to give a sense of the size and scale of the building.
Use of the concepts of proportion can be seen in the front
entrance and along the base of the building were the masonry is proportionally
larger than higher up the building. This is done of course because the
lower region of the building has to support more weight but the increase
in proportion also gives a feeling of sturdiness and stoutness. The building
will not be moving anytime soon.
Each individual office and classroom inside had dimensions
that fell under a 3:4 or 2:3 ratio excluding the old laboratories that
were built to a 1:1 ratio. Later the laboratories were converted into
multiple rooms and the ratios were lost.
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