It had those "volume ceilings" that builders love to tout, a "steeping tub" for glamour, and a dining room half the size of our former one.
The way American homes are built today, with open floor plans and volume ceilings, you have to integrate good scale and proportion into all the layers of your design.
What's contemporary about the house is its sizable vertical volumes (ceilings at 15 to 20 feet), the casual flow between such related rooms as the kitchen and breakfast area, and the spaces within the huge master bedroom suite.
In performance, the theatre is efficient if the auditorium is full, and speech carries quite well because of the small volume, flat ceiling, modulated sidewalls, excellent vertical sight lines, and direct hearing lines from all seats to the stage.
These "best" practices include a schedule of auctions, volume disclosure, price ceilings, penalties, streamline of administrative procedures and provision of information to potential participants.
Studies include the use of evaporative cooling device inside the tower to improve its thermal performance, the use of solar chimneys, courtyards and curved roofs to enhance the air movement inside the structure, and the use of volume control dampers and ceiling diffuser to optimize the fresh air flow rate and indoor conditions.
The pod becomes everything from a "Trippy Doormat" (many times removed from its namesake) to a red-and-blue volume suspended from the ceiling.
Ms. Nichols loved books, and nearly every room was filled with volumes from floor to ceiling.
The "West Mansion," as it is described in the offering plan, occupies a 60-by-70-foot 60-by-70-foot 60-by-70-foot 60-by-70-footeilings and a grand staircase.
The musicians settled in the central covered courtyard where they ranged themselves around the divans, playing all the time so that the insistent hand drums echoed off the walls and ceilings, the volume rising to fill the enclosed space.
