Rhythm

Rhythm It is an event that recurring at regular intervals. · Repetition. · Displacement. · Time. The rhythm is a resource that can generate through the repetition of parts movement. In architecture, it allows an appreciation space that invites you to move more or less rapidly. 

In the architecture the rhythm can be created by the repetition of columns, windows, and other elements; by the modulation of spaces and its repetition…



__Some definitions: __ 
 * Diminishing **: Decrease in size, extend or range.


 * Relief: ** shapes carved on a surface so as to stand out from the surrounding background.


 * Subtly: ** difficult to detect or grasp by the mind.


 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Mere: **<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> simple.


 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Width: **<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the extend of something from side to side.


 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Bay spacing: **<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> each space or interval between the frames of a steel building is a “bay”.


 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Narrow: **<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> limited in size or scope.


 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rhythm: **<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> the ordered recurrence of elements in a composition.



__<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT Black'; font-size: 14pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Types: __ <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">
 * <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Repetition of shapes: ** <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">windows, doors, columns, wall areas, arches, and the like.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Repetition of dimensions **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">: such as the dimensions between supports or those of bay spacing.

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 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Repetition of differences: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> In this rhythmical series, the ascending and descending progressions are built up from small to large and to small again.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Open rhythm: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">A mere repetition of similar units equally spaced and without a defined beginning or a defined end.
 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rhythm of lines: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Such rhythms can be merely systematic variations of linear lengths or curvatures. <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Rhythms of the masses: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> The repeated masses.


 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Vertical Rhythms: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> Produce a mass of great impact. <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">


 * <span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Regular Rhythm: **<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">Achieve only monotony.



//<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">“ ////<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The spiral is one of the most rhythmical of forms because of its combination of repeated curves around a focus and the continual progressive change in the radius of the curvature. ////<span style="font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-GB; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">” //

<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In architecture, the rhythm is used to give continuity to a space, to creating a prospect, or to make more height, length or width the space to the human eye...

<span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">In this picture we can see a Gothic cathedral. <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">On the facade of this cathedral we see the use of rhythm to generate a sense of height that rises to heaven. <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 19pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;">The repetition of windows framed in arches like the doors. There is a modulation that divides the facade into three segments, the two towers and the nave. The repetition of the columns also helps generate the rhythm of the facade accentuate the modulation. <span style="background: white; font-family: 'Bodoni MT'; font-size: 13pt; mso-ansi-language: EN-US; mso-bidi-font-family: Arial;"> media type="file" key="Rhythm.wma"