During the renaissance in Europe architects became very interested in recreating what they saw as the beauty and harmony of the universe in their buildings. Architects used proportion to relate each part of a building to every other part harmoniously and they sought mathematical relationships for the length, width and height of rooms. Andrea Palladio utilised three different sets of ratios to obtain good proportions in his villas and churches in Italy. These were based on arithmetic, geometric and harmonic relationships. The first might give a room which measures 6 feet by 12 feet, with a height of 9 feet. The terms 6, 9, 12 are related arithmetically because the second term exceeds the first by the same amount as the third term exceeds the second. In geometric proportion the first terra relates to the second as the second to the third. We might then have a room which measures 4 feet by 9 feet with a height ol 6 feet, because the width of the room is two-thirds or the height, and the height is two-thirds of the length. In the more complex final example the terms are in harmonic proportion when the difference of the two extreme terms from the third or intermediate term are in the same proportion. For example, if a room measures 6 feet wide by 12 feet long and 8 feet high the intermediate measurement is that of the height which is 8 feet. The smallest dimension is the width which is 6 feet and the difference between 6 feet and 8 feet is 2 feet or a third of 6 feet. The largest dimension is the length at 12 feet and the difference between it and the height is 4 icet which is a third of the length.

contemporary building marking :

Eksterior
- light materials wall and non stuktur
- forming building facade more simpel, generally more amount using vertical line element and horizontal
- a lot of contemporary building use materials steel
- plate roof

Interior:
- Low Plafond
- materials of massif wall and light transparent
- aperture its building is wide (door, windows, etc), to exploit natural view, wind and daylight.
- terrace;core and gallery enough
- warm material furniture, traditional exploration
- indoor plant.

About this building :

Adrian Moreno Núñez
María Samaniego Ponce
Structural Design: Patricio Ribadeneira
Project: 2003-04
Construction: 2004
Photographs: Sebastián Crespo

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