{"id":4919,"date":"2024-05-13T03:01:25","date_gmt":"2024-05-13T03:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/?p=4919"},"modified":"2024-05-13T03:01:25","modified_gmt":"2024-05-13T03:01:25","slug":"size","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/2024\/05\/size\/","title":{"rendered":"Size!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to talk about size in architecture.<\/p>\n<p>Even with 3D and a 3D model, it\u2019s super difficult to get a feel of space. I look at my prototype\u2019s LDK area, thinking it\u2019s fine. And then I doubt it: it feels way too large or far too small, somehow.<\/p>\n<p>So I go back to numbers and they look good: 150cm\/5 feet between a couch and a chair, sounds just normal. But in 3D it looks crazy sometimes.<\/p>\n<p>I look at houses for inspiration and so many have outrageous sizes. Anything beyond 150m\u00b2\/1600 sq. foot for living is wild to me. I look at those villas and I\u2019m like:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>320m\u00b2\/3444 sq. foot for a family of four? How many miles a day you walk in there? Why would you have such massive, empty spaces to go from a bedroom to a bathroom or kitchen? Why do you have a separate \u201cfamily\u201d room in your giant family home?<\/li>\n<li>How many folks actually visit, knowing that you live away from the city in that giant house? How many people actually use your guest rooms? How often that insane 10-seat dining table is used for? You heat and cool all of that for no reason but a possibility? In this economy?<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The best parties I\u2019ve ever been to in L.A. have been in small bungalow houses. You can have a small house and 30 folks having a great time in it. You just need to open the windows because the heat goes up so fast with that many human bodies crammed in.<\/p>\n<p>Small is amazing in architecture, despite what architects and clients think. Small spaces connect with the human psyche better, I believe.<\/p>\n<p>Now small spaces, sure. Partitioned spaces, no. Wide open spaces are preferable. More enjoyable.<\/p>\n<p><img src=\"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/see\/uploads\/big\/8c566dd9658d890c214bc528b48c3f30.jpg\"><\/p>\n<p>Like this (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.arch2o.com\/paraty-house-studio-mk27\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Paraty House<\/a> in Brazil), but way smaller (this one is <em>840m\u00b2\/9044 sq. foot<\/em>).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I forgot to talk about size in architecture. Even with 3D and a 3D model, it\u2019s super difficult to get a feel of space. I look at my prototype\u2019s LDK area, thinking it\u2019s fine. And then I doubt it: it feels way too large or far too small, somehow. So I go back to numbers [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4919"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4919\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/har0ld.com\/playground\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}