"Hand scale" in architecture.
https://archinect.com/forum/thread/100885/all/50
An architecture to be touched, to be felt as an individual tactile experience, exists! The perception of space "on a hand scale" is different from the perception given by the sense of sight: leaning on a wall, on a handrail, ringing doorbells, opening and closing doors and windows, painting a wall, driving in nails, etc....
A central element of Stencil Art is precisely its having chosen architecture and urban space as its basic support, while nevertheless maintaining a dimension proportional to the "hand dimension". In Fabula Architecture Stencil Art and Sticker Art expand, contaminating the design of architectural form, coagulating in crucial points that represent moments of density of the "hand scale".
The dimension of an active "manual making" that goes far beyond passive "visual enjoyment".
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>>>an additional possibility-developement of the Fabula method can be realized by dividing in two different areas the portion of external wall of the building.
1- the wall closer to the street level featured by stencil-art, perceivable by everyone by touch (so enjoyed by mean of the “hand scale”)
2- the portion of wall higher than the first one enjoyed from the street just visually (area distant from the street level: “eye scale”)
The stencil-art subset could stretch from the street level upward through "rails" that act like an "elevator", projection lines in height of a formal module. The rails, leading the subsets upward, meet other elements (windows, etc.) and interact with them...⁷
