Chapter Five
Houses and Community Buildings
The buildings in this chapter are bracketed together as houses and community buildings, having a similar type of use and being built to a similar scale. A scale is measured relative to an exact standard size or to some known, if approximate, size, for example in architecture the human size. In the way it is generally used, the ‘scale’ of a building refers both to the actual size of the building and its elements and to its apparent size. In fact, usually a series of scales is revealed in approaching and moving through any building. The buildings considered in this chapter are all small, which gives them a pleasingly small scale appearance and also allows a freedom to the design not always possible in ...
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