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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Moldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
LIGHT & SHADE: Moldings on the outside of a building are almost always illuminated by direct sunlight. Interior moldings, on the other hand, are usually illuminated by indirect reflected light or electric lighting. To compensate for the general weakness of interior light, you might want to [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
REDUCTION/AMPLIFICATION: While it’s illogical to have two disparate scales present within a particular molding sequence, it’s not unusual to have varying scales in moldings belonging to different features of the same building or space. In fact, in structures of any complexity, one is often compelled to [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Moulding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
PROPORTION & SCALE: Both of these issues must be satisfied in molding design to achieve a harmonious whole, both in the relation of the profiles to their context, and to each other. The profiles on the left of fig. 9 are proportionate and internally well scaled, [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architecture Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
FACIAL ANGLE: Another important alignment is the FACIAL ANGLE — the incline off the vertical at which both individual moldings and molding groups will be pitched. It's important to maintain a consistent facial angle throughout a molding sequence; otherwise the parts will appear disconnected because light [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architecture Mouldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
COORDINATION: In classical architecture, locating moldings relative to each other is not a free-for-all, but involves coordinating individual parts to make an ordered whole. This is usually attained by means of geometric alignments. For instance, when a TORUS is set over a PLINTH, its outermost point [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architectural Mouldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
REPETITION: Repetition can nonetheless be successful in certain cases. In Fig 6 we have a convex ECHINUS followed by a convex bead, and the combination works perfectly well. But almost always you want to avoid the literal repetition of profiles one after the other.
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Good Millwork: Classical Architecture Moldings, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
Molding Design
Let’s look at some of the formal issues that can guide the design of moldings for interiors.
TYPE & SPECIMEN: First, we must distinguish between a general TYPE of molding and the potentially infinite number of individual SPECIMENS of a molding type that can be created [...]
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Good Millwork: Classical Architecture Moulding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
The Function of Moldings
The origins of moldings are subject to debate. Like all elements of classicism, however, it is clear that moldings perform both pragmatic and aesthetic functions.
A base molding, for example, does more than just conceal a joint; first, it serves as a visual foot [...]
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Good Millwork: Traditional Architectural Molding, originally uploaded by Good Millwork.
Dramatizing Gravity
We’ve observed previously that gravity is a primary contributor to the presence of stress inside an architectural construction. But gravity implies something else about the classical building: namely, the existence of an up and a down. Organic nature acknowledges gravity’s effect by detailing most living [...]
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