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Hi,
Thanks for the compliments.
I have several reasons for having high ceilings:
- In many forms of classical architecture, extremely high ceilings are the
norm. For instance, one famouse Italian architect, Paladio, recommends
having a ceilling as high as the room is wide! This sounds pretty
obnoxious, but you can actually find many old buildings in Europe like this.
- I like the look of the oversized floors because it gives a strong vertical
stretch to the building. It makes it look like its stretching towards the
sky.
- An oversized floor gives you more room for detail with windows and
moulding. I like mini-fig scale, but 6 bricks high isn't enough room to do
any complex arch or molding work.
- On a large building, if you only make each story 6 blocks high, it is
almost impossible to see in, especially to the back. It is even more
impossible to get your hand inside to place interior details. By making
them 10-12 bricks high, it is easy to see in as well as place interior
objects.
- It is not overly expensive to build walls. If you have a few
architectural details, you can make most of the rest out of cheap bulk
bricks. However, plates are far more expensive and are needed for floors.
By making each story higher, I need less stories for a given hight and
therefore, I need less plates.
Brad
J.D. Forinash <foxtrot@cc.gatech.edu> wrote in message
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> In article <GBnHLy.1LI@lugnet.com>, Brad Hamilton <bhamilto1@home.com> • wrote:
> > This is my latest Fantasy-Baroque building:
> > http://members.home.net/hmltn1/topia/library.htm
>
> One thing I've noted about your structures is you seem to really like
> high ceilings, 12 or so bricks above the floor. Any particular reason to
> this? They seem to work well, but I'm not sure what it is I really like
> about it...
>
> -JDF
> --
> J.D. Forinash ,-.
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