Within the great world of architecture there are A series of factors That, designed as a whole, they help the creation, design and construction of the great architecture works that we all know. The proportion plays a primary role since it refers to the harmonious relationship of one part with another or with the whole, while the scale suggests The object -size relationship with respect to its environment and with other objects.
Both elements are subject to the physical and intrinsic characteristics of the materials that will be used, as well as to the design by the architect. In this way, The same material can have different settingssizes and colors, which affects the perception of the user with respect to the proportion and the scale. Throughout history and thanks to the experience and experimentation of architects, artists, mathematicians and theorists, We find several proportion systems that have helped create architecture worldwide.
Proportion systems
Created to visually unify the multiple factors that affect the architectural design, as well as to give cohesion and uniformity to the whole set. They encourage order, increasing the continuity of the spatial sequences and determine the relationship between interior and exterior.
Golden section
Probably, It is the oldest proportion systemborn of the combination of the Pythagorean conception of «everything is number» and that certain numerical relationships reflect the harmonic structure of the universe. This system, discovered by the Greeks and theorized thanks to mathematical knowledge, It is defined as a divided line So the minor part is the largest as this is at the total, numerically represented as 1,618.
In ancient Greece this system was used to define the proportions and architecture measures, being one of the most important examples of the part, while also related to the measures of the human body. There is an important correspondence between the Aurea section and the number of Fibonacci – sequence in which each term is the sum of the previous two – which we can find in nature, as in the sunflowers and shells of some mollusks.