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I think the coolest thing from an experience perspective as far as a built environment with this is the opportunity to have spaces with different ratios and spa
by wizardforhire 2y ago
I think the coolest thing from an experience perspective as far as a built environment with this is the opportunity to have spaces with different ratios and spacing.
I’m reminiscing about realizing from an American perspective why buildings in Europe felt so different. Old buildings sure, but new buildings feel weird! It finally dawned on me that the difference between imperial and metric had made its way to the build environment in subtle but pervasive ways that once seen could not be unseen. Case in point, European doors are wider, switches are lower, door handles are lower, rooms are just slightly off. Of course the reverse would be also be true. But contractors rounding to whole units for simplicity had standardized on a set of ratios that made things feel odd.
Would be cool to have an installation that embodied this. It’s subtle but talk about driving people crazy.
- inglor_cz 2y agoStandard table height in Europe is 75 cm, which indeed sounds like a convenient rounding. What is the value in the US?
- mauvehaus 2y agoAnywhere between 28" and 30" is in the accepted range, though 28" will feel a little low to most people. I had a table at 31" once, and every time I sat at it, I felt like a kid sitting at the grown-up table. A good reference for stuff like this is Human Dimension and Interior Space: https://archive.org/details/humandimensionin0000pane https://archive.org/details/humandimensionin0000pane
- jinji 2y ago[dead]