From all of the reading this past week a couple of things really caught my attention. From the Ching book the rock cut tombs were very interesting to me. I think it is amazing in how you can carve almost a city looking structure into the side of a mountain and hollow rooms and things of that nature without any materials other than what the mountain was. It seems to be very difficult and it looks great. I like how they stacked rooms and windows above each other to stack a city into a mountain. Although it was a tomb the outside of it looks more elegant to look as though people had lived there. The details of columns and windows are so fascinating and done with great care to show off the purpose they wanted to pursue with it. The tombs were inside of the carved out structure and were very deep below openings almost like rooms.
Another interesting reading was about the theater in the Roth book. What I like about the theater was that today this is how theaters are. It is cool to think that something so simple in reality was kept for so many years. I think this structure is especially appealing to me because it stack layers after layers but to serve purpose for multiple people to sit and enjoy a show or whatever is going on. They grouped seats but in a way that it stacked to save room in a sense because the higher seats it doesn’t matter about space up high. If you were to build seats like they are now but where they didn’t stack but grouped close on a lower level it would be infinite to try and arrange them in a way to make it able to see and save room from the theater being miles long. Another thing about the theater is that it wraps around to a focal point. Its main purpose and view is a circular area where the activity is going on. Its purpose is served well of trying to fit many people for one section.
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