Friday, September 07, 2018
Plain old proportion
ZH clickbaits a tiny-room housing project in Spain.
The Sorosians are outraged as usual. Sorosians (including the incalculably wicked hypermonstrous massmurderous city dysgovernment of Spokane) always weaponize "human" "rights" to exterminate Deplorables more efficiently. Housing that people can afford is always an UNACCEPTABLE VIOLATION OF "HUMAN" "RIGHTS". We must eliminate it, we must push Deplorables onto the streets where we can plow them up and toss them in the oven.
The ZH randian commenters are outraged in other directions as predictably usual.
Everyone is missing the point.
Here's the picture given by ZH:
This is PLENTY of space for one person in a dorm or boarding-house situation with common bathrooms and eating facilities. It could even be a complete residence.
The problem with all of these architect-designed tiny spaces is plain old PROPORTION. Mobile homes and RVs make excellent use of small spaces with built-in furniture and SMALL furniture. Small stoves, small sinks, small beds, foldable tables. This room violates the principle. Nothing is built-in, nothing is foldable, nothing is COMPACT. Giant bulgy bed, 3000 square foot 11008800 HHHHDDD TV that you can't even fucking SEE from the available distance. No storage, no kitchenette, no dresser, no table and chair.
Secondly, the walls are glossy and dark, making it impossible to achieve comfortable lighting. Ordinary walls and ceilings are off-white with matte rough surfaces, providing broad diffuse light from a small bulb. Dark walls absorb an amazing amount of light, requiring superbright bulbs to get usable illumination; and glossy walls act like mirrors, reflecting the bulb itself without diffusing.
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Later addendum, found in an old Acetylene Lighting journal. A table of reflectivity for various wall surfaces, which verifies the dramatic difference:
Raw plaster ........... 0.40-0.50
Finished plaster ...... 0.60-0.70
Fine white washes...... 0.70-0.84
White tile, marble..... 0.50-0.70
White paint ........... 0.40-0.60
Finished wood—light ... 0.12
Finished wood—dark .... 0.06
This is PLENTY of space for one person in a dorm or boarding-house situation with common bathrooms and eating facilities. It could even be a complete residence.
The problem with all of these architect-designed tiny spaces is plain old PROPORTION. Mobile homes and RVs make excellent use of small spaces with built-in furniture and SMALL furniture. Small stoves, small sinks, small beds, foldable tables. This room violates the principle. Nothing is built-in, nothing is foldable, nothing is COMPACT. Giant bulgy bed, 3000 square foot 11008800 HHHHDDD TV that you can't even fucking SEE from the available distance. No storage, no kitchenette, no dresser, no table and chair.
Secondly, the walls are glossy and dark, making it impossible to achieve comfortable lighting. Ordinary walls and ceilings are off-white with matte rough surfaces, providing broad diffuse light from a small bulb. Dark walls absorb an amazing amount of light, requiring superbright bulbs to get usable illumination; and glossy walls act like mirrors, reflecting the bulb itself without diffusing.
= = = = =
Later addendum, found in an old Acetylene Lighting journal. A table of reflectivity for various wall surfaces, which verifies the dramatic difference:
Raw plaster ........... 0.40-0.50
Finished plaster ...... 0.60-0.70
Fine white washes...... 0.70-0.84
White tile, marble..... 0.50-0.70
White paint ........... 0.40-0.60
Finished wood—light ... 0.12
Finished wood—dark .... 0.06
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