2002 Fiscal Year Final Research Report Summary
Research on the architectural practice of design method and spiritual expression found in the proportion of the Romanesque religious architecture
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13650697
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| Research Category |
Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
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| Allocation Type | Single-year Grants |
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| Section | 一般 |
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| Research Field |
Architectural history/design
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| Research Institution | Kyoto Institute of Technology |
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Principal Investigator |
NISHIDA Masatsugu Kyoto Institute of Technology, Dept. of Eng. & Design, Associate professor, 工芸学部, 助教授 (80198473)
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| Project Period (FY) |
2001 – 2002
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| Keywords | Romanseque architecture / Chirstian architecture / Symbolism / Spirituality / Composition of plan / Measurement / Theory of measure / Proportion |
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| Research Abstract |
1. Measured plans and arrangement of data: Almost of all measured data which we possessed could be converted to the measured plans. As the result of overall survey of these plans, we could be conscious of the inexactitude of previous plans. The arrangement of our measured data was also completed and all measured data could be at our disposal for the comparative research of the measurements.
2. Data-Base of measurements: We could not achieve the Data-Base of our measured data, but the arrangement of the data which enablcus to me these data coul be completed. As to photographic data which conserved in the form of 35mm positive slides and our measured plans were already digitalized.
3. Field-work of the sites: Field survey of the early and late Romanesque churches in Spain, Portugal and Italy in 2001, and of the three cistercian sisters of Provence in 2002 were carried out. By these field works, we could obtain the measured plans with high exactitude the precise data of the measurements. Ou
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r hypothesis of the Romanesque eqtuivocal proportion which can be interpreted as the designmethod and the spiritual expression could be verified in these materials.
4. Analysis of proportion: in spite of the difficulty to verify the elementary geometrical figure through the observation of the actual buildings, we could obtained some examples which suggest always the possibility of the geometrical method of the Romanesque design. Also, a big importance of the numbers expressed in the measures appeared. Though the intermadiation of number symbolism, which is greatly important for the medieval mentality, the number appeared to us as a bearer of the multiple meanings og the Romanesquearchitecttne. A proportion with the equivocal meanings as design method and spritual expression was clarified. This discovery leads us to a future research subject which we will able to consider the numbers in measurements as an architectural representation of various levels.5. We could profit of rather many opportunities to publish including an oral presentation at the seminar of a French university. Almost of all our publications show that the importance of the equivocal proportion expressed through the numbers of the measurements. Less
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