English Heritage considered John Madin's upturned ziggurat, a building proportioned according to the Golden Ratio and placed precisely in dialogue with the city's Victorian civic centre, to be the finest 20th-century building in Birmingham.
The correlations between prime mover capacity and mixed ratio (residential building proportion of total buildings) is demonstrated in the design process.
In this paper, the azimuth features of direct solar radiation on the external surface of a building are analyzed; the orientation and the form of a building are discussed, and the optimum building proportion for solar control is recommended.
First, the buildings will be matched into similar pairs based on geographic location, numbers of units within the building, proportion of units occupied by seniors, existing EMS call rate (number of calls/100 apartment units) in the 2 years prior to the intervention period and the types of social programmes offered to residents.
The building's proportions are governed by the "golden section", while the "driven voids", each rising to a circular oculus, are meant to evoke primordial architecture.
And, if you've never seen Columbus Circle before, you probably won't be satisfied, either: the building's proportions and composition seem just as odd and awkward as they ever did.
From Shen's quotation or perhaps Shen's own paraphrasing of Yu Hao's Timberwork Manual (木經; Mujing)—shows that already in the 10th century there was a graded system of building unit proportions, a system which Shen states had become more precise in his time but stating no one could possibly reproduce such a sound work.
In architecture, scale — the size of various parts of a building in proportion to one another and to the size of human beings — counts for a lot.
When you are designing a highly insulated, energy-efficient building, the proportion between the total internal floor area and the accumulated areas of the ground floor, external walls and roof has a profound effect on energy efficiency, which is compromised by irregular plan shapes and small floor areas.
