Scale Analysis
Texture Although there are three different materials and textures going on in this one particular spot on Water Street, the brick, clapboard, and stone buildings are able to blend together well to give Downtown Gardiner some variety.
Scale is how we relate to the built world around us. Whether it be a street lamp, a door, the brick that makes a building, the foliage, etc. It is scale that unknowingly makes a space livable, usable, comfortable, and attractive physically and mentally. If we were not able to connect to a space through scale, the places we live, work, and travel through would be dead spaces. The power of scale is huge. Scale is so crucial to our everyday lives, and it is not something that people are aware of. Scale presents itself in many different ways. “Scale is not size, it is the inherent claim to size that the construction makes to the eye.” (Cullen 79) There are some great moments of human scale in Gardiner that I discovered and a space with little human scale. When looking for how scale is used in a town, one is forced to see through a new lens and start to discover the unknown, the unrecognized.
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