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• Re:Leave home(Score: 3, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17, @10:01PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday December 17, @10:01PM (#1427106)

  And now you know the suspected origin of badly-scaled modern architecture, including McMansions. Ever notice how those buildings routinely have absurdly tall ceilings, more rooms than necessary, cavernously empty rooms, out-of-scale ornate decor, and other features that seem out of place? Not to mention the useless amenities strewn about the estates. Take note how most of that trend originally started in historically public areas of the house, most notably the giant "lawyer foyer." If you take the same house and shrink most of the proportions by a factor of two or three, it suddenly doesn't seem so bad. And what would have a perspective roughly two or three times smaller than the average adult? A child. So, in essence, you have all of these buildings designed for people remembering what the huge mansions of the rich were like when they were children. But the architects have to scale everything up to the size of an adult in order for those clients to be impressed compared to their memory.

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