Yes, I would not expect a Marcher to know of Bondeaulx's Three Laws of Design, and Madame Regné's famed essay, "On the Application of Bondeaulx's Three Laws of Design to Water Features". I would be happy to enlighten you.
We can all of us agree that architecture is an expression and application of geometrical order, yes? Yet it is not one governed strictly by mathematics, as one might expect. Indeed there is no single accepted formulation of how order is achieved in architecture. There are many scholarly treatises written on the understanding of natural inanimate and biological structures, but the systemic patterns erected in our own more human construction had, until Bondeaulx's work, long gone unobserved.
Bondeaulx formalized his understanding of that patterning in his three laws, and in the third, set down a specific scaling factor that might be used to determine minimum acceptable space ratios, which was then applied by Madame Regné to better understand the most soothing space ratios in the tiers of a fountain. After heavy research and a series of trials, Madame Regné concluded that there is a certain harmonious balance to Bondeaulx's scaling factor. It is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the soul.
That is to say that, a fountain, balanced thusly, will produce sounds that are, on record, noted as being more pleasurable and more soothing, than a fountain balanced improperly.
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We can all of us agree that architecture is an expression and application of geometrical order, yes? Yet it is not one governed strictly by mathematics, as one might expect. Indeed there is no single accepted formulation of how order is achieved in architecture. There are many scholarly treatises written on the understanding of natural inanimate and biological structures, but the systemic patterns erected in our own more human construction had, until Bondeaulx's work, long gone unobserved.
Bondeaulx formalized his understanding of that patterning in his three laws, and in the third, set down a specific scaling factor that might be used to determine minimum acceptable space ratios, which was then applied by Madame Regné to better understand the most soothing space ratios in the tiers of a fountain. After heavy research and a series of trials, Madame Regné concluded that there is a certain harmonious balance to Bondeaulx's scaling factor. It is as pleasing to the eye as it is to the soul.
That is to say that, a fountain, balanced thusly, will produce sounds that are, on record, noted as being more pleasurable and more soothing, than a fountain balanced improperly.