| Title |
A Design Tool for Practical Application of Musical Proportions in Architecture |
| Keywords |
Architectural Theory ; Musical Proportion ; Facade ; CAAD ; Museum der Moderne in Salzburg |
| Abstract |
Throughout the architectural history, there has been a quest for a formal ordering-system that facilitates aesthetic requirements of a design. The specific formal ordering-systems such as axes, grids, symmetry, proportion, etc., can help to maintain unity, to avoid chaos and then to achieve harmony in a design. Of those, proportion systems have been considered as a basis for answering how harmony is achieved in an architectural design. In particular, harmonic proportions derived from musical scales played a central role in the minds and designs of Renaissance theorists and architects. In this paper, a new review of the musical proportion is provided and a design tool is proposed, which generates and evaluates on architectural designs, using the analytical proportion of music in a CAAD (Computer-Aided Architectural Design) system. This tool is implemented in the AutoCAD environment and is applied to the "Museum der Moderne" in Salzburg, Austria. In short, the proposed design tool shows a formal and explicit way to integrate an architectural theory into a CAAD system. |