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Less Chaos More Order
This is a quick posting adding to a previous post Cafetières, Disorder, Chaos and Anarchy. This morning whist sitting in the sun on our breakfast seat at Scoughall, I noticed that the coffee pot we always use both here and at … Continue reading
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Modules and Proportions
Introduction The primary reason why systems of proportion have been and continue to be important for architecture is that they enable our buildings to embody a mathematical order that we either distil out of or impose upon nature. Besides this, … Continue reading
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Finchampstead
BACKGROUND This post recreates the report issued for the opening of the Gorse Ride Housing Estate Finchamptead by Mr Peter Walker Minister of Housing and Local Government on 17th July 1970. The estate was designed by the Ministry’s Research and … Continue reading
House Design
This post adds extra information to part of an earlier post “Severely Constrained Design”. The Scottish Special Housing Association (SSHA) and the Edinburgh University Architectural Research Unit (ARU) developed a Computer Aided Design program, called House Design. (Bijl et al., … Continue reading
Size and Distance Effect
The Distance Effect In whatever way they are presented, it is easier to compare two magnitudes that are quantitatively further apart, than it is to compare two magnitudes that are quantitatively closer together. This is the distance effect. Figure 1: … Continue reading
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Numerical Separators
With a base 10 place value number system, Britain and America use the period as the radix symbol, to separate integers and decimals, and use a comma to separate groups of digits; for example, they would write 3,200,100.56 Other Europeans … Continue reading
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Round and Sharp Numbers
“Don’t interrupt,” Bruno said as we came in. “I’m counting the Pigs in the field!” “How many are there?” I enquired. “About a thousand and four,” said Bruno. “You mean ‘about a thousand,’” Sylvie corrected him. “There’s no good saying … Continue reading
Königsberg Bridges
Background The great Swiss mathematician Leonhard Euler, who had been asked by the Mayor of Danzig to provide a solution to the Königsberg Bridge problem, sent him this disdainful reply: “. . . Thus you see, most noble Sir, how this type of … Continue reading
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Weber’s Law
Weber’s Law expresses a general relationship between an initial stimulus, a quantity or intensity, and the increased stimulus required for a change in the stimulus to be detected. The task is to tell apart, or discriminate, two things that differ … Continue reading
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