(quarantine inspired thread)
Traditional Japanese houses are built around a simple tatami module.
A tatami is about 90×180 cm
Even new buildings now specify the room size in tatami, since it's such an easy way to visualize size.
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Traditional Japanese houses are built around a simple tatami module.
A tatami is about 90×180 cm
Even new buildings now specify the room size in tatami, since it's such an easy way to visualize size.
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Everything in the room is measured in fractions of tatami, including windows and other vertical elements...
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The sliding door panels (fusuma) are exactly big as a tatami... (Which is slightly inconvenient if you are 180 or more..
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And by the way they roll on small wheels on a tracks on the floor and on the top:
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What I find really remarkable is that the same module applies to all the houses: from emperor's residence to humble town houses.
I think this is architecture at its highest level and I look at it as inspiration for software architecture too.
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I think this is architecture at its highest level and I look at it as inspiration for software architecture too.
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