SCALE IS THE PORTION OF MOTION

What is scale? Scale for what? What kind of scale?
Spaces are created for the usage of people. The usage may change accordingly, but there is always a usage, so, can we say scale is all about usage?
The resemblance between a theatre and architecture is the main excitement about the busy of creation in architecture. The writer of a theatre should arrange all the details of the fiction and the motions, also emotions of the scenes. It gives him a power and if it is used well, the impact of the theatre would be undeniable. The organization of the scenes and escalation of amount of emotion create the impact. As same as theatre, there is a power that provides users some feelings, functions and perception. Actually the way of architecture is to create series of actions for potential users. The motion thing is so related with these arrangements. The arrangement of scale identifies the arrangements of the actions and emotions. For example, before the modernism, because world was on impact of the religion, the message that was wanted to be given to people was that people were weak compared to the God. The religious places were always so important and have very giant scale in order to emphasize the situation of being just human and lead people to pray and believe. The feelings of people who entered the religious spaces were a bit trembled, respectful and peaceful. The messages were directly given. The changes on the world also change the scale of the spaces. For example, in the spaces of modern world, the impact which is wanted to be created is that everybody is equal and people are not so different. So, the houses resemble each other, the spaces are so controlled and generally private ones are smaller than the oldest examples. The religious spaces are also changed in the today’s world, because the function of the religious space is not to create an impact of fear, just create a space for acts of worship. So, the forms of spaces, the importance of visual effects of the spaces are changed in the modern world.
In palaces, in gardens, in boulevards, in religious spaces, in both private and public perceptions are straitened in the modern world. It is the result of the machine ages, modern movement and changes on the life styles of people. The motions of modern people are accelerated. So, transitory spaces are getting important and reshaped. The metros, shopping centers, airports, train stations, roads, pedestrian roads are created according to these new types of motions of people. The motion sometimes lengthens the spaces, and to lead people to be faster, may be straiten. The shapes of spaces are shaped according to the motion which people are wanted to be leaded. So, the scale is the most important tool to manage this. Now on, can we say finally, scale is a portion of motion? I say yes. Then the scale has a function of limiting the both motions and emotions on the scenes of the architectural theatre.

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