content:
- introduction
- interview: math in daily life
- mathematics in buildings made by Lieke
- mathematics in gardens made by Sasha and Linde
- mathematics in interior made by Pip
- mathematics in architecture history made by Myrthe
Introduction
Hello we are team architecture and we will introduce us right now.
Hello, my name is Pip and I'm 14 years old. Actually, I have many hobbies. Some of them are for example playing football, playing the piano, shopping and meeting my friends. Later, I think I want to be something like a general practitioner or I want to do something creative.
Hello, my name is Sasha and I’m 14 years old. My hobby is playing piano and doing sports/going to the gym. What I like to do in my free time is doing things with friends like going to the mall. In the future I would like to spend my everyday life with and around animals.
Hello, my name Lieke and I'm 14 years old. My hobbies are meeting friends, playing football, listening to music and going on vacation. In the future I maybe want work in a hospital.
I'm Linde. I'm 14 years old. My hobbies are drawing, singing and writing. After school I usually text my friends and make homework. On Mondays I have band practice and on Wednesday I play sports. I also like watching movies and TV shows.
Hello, my name is Myrthe and I'm 15 years old. My hobbies are playing sports and drawing, but I also like meeting with friends. I would like to do something in the future with politics or architecture
Hello, my name is Pip and I'm 14 years old. Actually, I have many hobbies. Some of them are for example playing football, playing the piano, shopping and meeting my friends. Later, I think I want to be something like a general practitioner or I want to do something creative.
Hello, my name is Sasha and I’m 14 years old. My hobby is playing piano and doing sports/going to the gym. What I like to do in my free time is doing things with friends like going to the mall. In the future I would like to spend my everyday life with and around animals.
Hello, my name Lieke and I'm 14 years old. My hobbies are meeting friends, playing football, listening to music and going on vacation. In the future I maybe want work in a hospital.
I'm Linde. I'm 14 years old. My hobbies are drawing, singing and writing. After school I usually text my friends and make homework. On Mondays I have band practice and on Wednesday I play sports. I also like watching movies and TV shows.
Hello, my name is Myrthe and I'm 15 years old. My hobbies are playing sports and drawing, but I also like meeting with friends. I would like to do something in the future with politics or architecture
interview
Names - age - M/F - Professions, etc - Interviewed by:
Robin Grandia
19 - M - Youth engeneer - Linde
Humphrey Angel Stacie
73 - M -Construction worker - Linde
Ellen Sanders
46 - F - Contract manager - Myrthe
Questions asked:
1 Do you recognize math that you learned in school now in your daily life?
All: yes
2 Have you ever consciously have to use math in your daily life?
all: yes
3 Were you unable to understand something because of math?
Robin: no, Humphrey: no Ellen: yes
4 what is your job? And with this job, do you ever have to use math on a regular basis?
See top, all: yes
Final conclusion about questions:
Math is definetly all around us but we don't always know this. Humphrey explained to linde that he never had any problems because of math. he said that he always had people around him to help him.
Robin was more aware. He is a youth engeneer and he needs to use math in his work very often.
Ellen explained me that we all use math every day, when it comes to de-decorating your office or room and daily life. She doesn’t use mathematics all the time. She talks to people about their company some did a different level so it is hard to involve mathematics.
Robin Grandia
19 - M - Youth engeneer - Linde
Humphrey Angel Stacie
73 - M -Construction worker - Linde
Ellen Sanders
46 - F - Contract manager - Myrthe
Questions asked:
1 Do you recognize math that you learned in school now in your daily life?
All: yes
2 Have you ever consciously have to use math in your daily life?
all: yes
3 Were you unable to understand something because of math?
Robin: no, Humphrey: no Ellen: yes
4 what is your job? And with this job, do you ever have to use math on a regular basis?
See top, all: yes
Final conclusion about questions:
Math is definetly all around us but we don't always know this. Humphrey explained to linde that he never had any problems because of math. he said that he always had people around him to help him.
Robin was more aware. He is a youth engeneer and he needs to use math in his work very often.
Ellen explained me that we all use math every day, when it comes to de-decorating your office or room and daily life. She doesn’t use mathematics all the time. She talks to people about their company some did a different level so it is hard to involve mathematics.
mathematics in buildings
Maths is all around us. It’s almost impossible to think of something that is made without the help of mathematics. For example, buildings, interior, gardens and history. They all rely on numbers, measurements and sums. From simple shelters to an entire futuristic cities. Buildings and structures are everywhere, they are essential to our existents. Mathematics makes mind-blowing structures possible. Without maths, life would be different. Bridges would collapse, skyscrapers wouldn’t exist and building would be unstable and unsafe. In fact, we would might still live in caves.
Architecture and mathematics have always been closely linked. Ancient history shows how early civilisations constructed buildings with mathematical properties. As civilisation advanced, architects used more complicated types of maths to master designs and structures. The principle of arcs is especially used in bridges, where cables or arcs distribute forces to the heavier parts of the structure on the ground. Gravity is one of the main problems in architecture, that math can solve. For example a skyscraper, such a tall building needs a strong foundation to stand upon. Also, the lower stories are constructed of heavier materials, than the highest stories. The highest stories are build of less heavy materials, so the building wouldn’t collapse because of gravity. Maths also helps architects to design structures that will withstand lots of strong forces, like wind or earthquakes, without falling down. This is why buildings are constructed with strong but flexible materials, so the buildings stands still on the ground but can move a little in the upper stories. Nowadays, architects even use glass constructions for the tallest skyscrapers, all because of maths. Also it’s possible to prevent heat loss and wasted energy with mathematical calculations. With the help of computers you can model pretty much every aspect of a building, from its physics to its appearance. Computer models can simulate the way the wind blows around the building or sound waves bounce around inside it. Graphic programs can explore different mathematical surfaces and populate them with panels of different textures. |
mathematics in gardens
You might have never thought about it but even in gardens you can find signs of math. Not only do plants show this but even human influences with math can be found in your garden. take an example to the pathway running down to the back of your garden. If you want to save money or if you want to know how many tiles you need to finish the path, you can use math to calculate how long and wide you want your path and so also how many tiles you need, similar to exercises you can find in your math book.
Another example is the planting of seeds to grow crops. Sometimes the spacing is essential for a successful harvest, especially for farmers. For them math is also very useful to know how many acres they might need to grow some kind of crop on to make a profit. But this can also be useful in your own garden when you want to use your space as best as possible. You can map out where you want which fruit or vegetable. This will make place for more possibilities for you to plant other things.
SO what if there wasn't any math rules to go on? Then your garden would probably look like a total mess. You, first of all, wouldn't be able to measure out how many tiles you need to pave parts or just how many packs of seeds you need if you want to fill your kitchen garden to the ultimate.
Another example is the planting of seeds to grow crops. Sometimes the spacing is essential for a successful harvest, especially for farmers. For them math is also very useful to know how many acres they might need to grow some kind of crop on to make a profit. But this can also be useful in your own garden when you want to use your space as best as possible. You can map out where you want which fruit or vegetable. This will make place for more possibilities for you to plant other things.
SO what if there wasn't any math rules to go on? Then your garden would probably look like a total mess. You, first of all, wouldn't be able to measure out how many tiles you need to pave parts or just how many packs of seeds you need if you want to fill your kitchen garden to the ultimate.
mathematics in interior
if you look around in a house you can notice that everything is build and set in a different way. This is because if there isn't used mathematics in objects, they will collapse easily. You have to make sure that everything is build stable, and to do that you use mathematics. Interior can be in the way you see it often, but it can also be very artful.
Let's start with the normal interior. You can for example think of a chair. In most cases a chair has four legs. The legs have to be connected to the plate you sit on. There has to be a certain angle in which the legs are connected to the sitting plate. In most cases this angle is 90 degrees. It can also be that the angle is bigger or smaller, but then you have to watch out, because the chair can be unstable and it can collapse. The chair you can see (top 1) is a normal chair with straight legs. The chair you can see (second) is a chair which has legs with a smaller angle. Therefore, it has black extra support bars. That’s to make the chair more stable. As you can notice a lot of mathematics is used for this. Of course there’s a lot more interior in a house. You can think of tables, walls, couches, closets, things on the wall like paintings and a lot more. Most likely a room is decorated in the same style. It can be that everything is straight, but it can also be that everything is put in a messy way. Lots of artists like that, because it gives a creative look. Interior can also be very artful. Interior can be made in different shapes. As you can see on this picture of a stairs (third), the wall is painted in a way so the stairs looks very weird, but cool. Mathematics is used to measure everything and angles are used to make the stairs straight (last). On the picture of a part of this room you can see a hollow in the wall. To make this hollow well, you have to measure a lot, and you have to make everything fit exactly. To make the set-up of the hole room, a lot of measurements have to be done. The stairs and the couch have to fit well and to make this work you have to make a work plan with measurements and good communication. |
mathematics in history architecture
The history of architecture is different through various traditions, regions, trends and dates.
Mathematics and architecture are related since, as with other arts and architects use mathematics for several reasons. Apart from the mathematics needed when engineering buildings, architects use geometry, to define the spatial form of a building. From the Pythagoreans of the sixth century BC onwards to create forms considered harmonious, so created to fit that way and look good in that way. In a lot of countries (such as Ancient Egypt, Ancient Greece, India and the Islamic world), buildings (including pyramids, temples, mosques, palaces and mausoleums ( external free-standing building constructed as a monument)) were laid out with specific proportions for religious reasons. - In Islamic architecture, geometric shapes and geometric tile patterns are used to decorate buildings both inside and outside. - Some Hindu temples have a fractal-like structure where parts resemble the whole, conveying a message about the infinite In Hindu cosmology. - In Chinese architecture, the Tulou (picture top)(a traditional common Hakka people home) of Fujian province are circular, communal defensive structures. In the twenty-first century, mathematical ornamentation is again being used to cover public buildings. In Renaissance architecture, symmetry and proportion were deliberately emphasized by architects (such as Leon Battista Alberti, Sebastiano Serlio and Andrea Palladio) influenced by Vitruvius' De architectura (= roman way of building) from Ancient Rome and the arithmetic of the Pythagoreans from Ancient Greece. At the end of the nineteenth century, Vladimir Shukhov in Russia and Antoni Gaudí in Spain (Barcelona) improved the use of hyperboloid structures (second picture) in the Sagrada Família, Gaudí improved/invented a lot (such as hyperbolic paraboloids, tessellations, catenary arches, catenoids, helicoids and ruled surfaces). In the twentieth century, styles such as modern architecture and Deconstructivism explored different geometries to achieve desired effects. Minimal surfaces have been used in tent-like roof coverings at Denver International Airport, while Richard Buckminster Fuller pioneered the use of the strong thin-shell structures known as geodesic domes (for example the Atomium). |