ABSTRACT

This account of the ‘principle of similitude’ and its effects has served to show the relationship between certain of the functions of the organic body and its shape or form; and to demonstrate a similar relationship applying between certain functions of buildings, and their shapes. These have been rather general architectural functions, applying to buildings of almost all kinds: the provision of usable space, and its relation to site area occupied; the retention or loss of heat, and the admission of daylight, as they affect surface area of walls and roof; and the circulation of the occupants along corridors, on stairs and in lifts.