FIGURE OF A BEDROOM

A bedroom is a place for rest and sleep, and no figure is as well suited to its purpose as the heptagon, as shown in this figure which is 7 measures long, 2 measures wide, and 3 measures high including the roof, and the reason why the best suited figure of all is a heptagonal one, is that a bedroom cannot concord with any other figure in view of the purpose for which it provides shade. If its shape were quadrangular, its form would not be conducive to rest, and a person reclining in the room in which the master is reclining would be too close to him, and if it were pentangular, 2 measures wide and 5 measures long, it would be too wide, and if it were 1 measure wide and 5 long, it would be too narrow and would not have the right form; and likewise with the six angle figure as 2 measures of width would make it too wide and 1 measure would make it too narrow, and likewise with the figure of 8 angles.

We have spoken of the method of measurement suited to buildings according to the figures from which they should be derived in view of their function and use, and from the things we said about the said figures, a doctrine can be derived for suitably configuring the construction of houses, portals and public places, and this doctrine is useful for those who love beautiful and well proportioned buildings.