ABSTRACT

The Macau Holy House of Mercy was built in 1569 and rebuilt in the 18th century. Located in the historic center of Macao, the Macau Holy House of Mercy is included on the World Heritage List of UNESCO.With the Macau Holy House of Mercy, especially the façade of its neo-classical arcade added in 1905, as the research subject, this study applied the methods of historical document research, field measurement and digital analysis, especially parametric analyses with the assistance of the modeling software of Rhinoceros 6.0 and the software plug-in of Grasshopper. And the following results were obtained: 1) its designers applied three-section partition in the horizontal and vertical directions and equal division in stratification in the overall dimension of the façade; 2) its designers also applied modularization (modular) design and combination in the columns and details of doorways; 3) this study found that the (successive) partition of the façade is closer to the “Golden Section“ than “Root Rectangle Partition”; further analyses discovered the Golden Rectangle and Golden Spiral (successive division) in the façade. The underlying aesthetics-mathematics pattern of ”digitally-derived geometric design” is of significant historical value.

摘要

澳门仁慈堂建于1569年，18世纪重建。位于澳门历史中心的澳门仁慈堂被联合国教科文组织列入世界遗产名录。以澳门仁慈堂，特别是1905年新增的新古典主义拱廊立面为研究对象，本研究采用历史文献研究、实地测量、数字分析等方法，特别是参数化分析，借助Rhinoceros 6.0建模软件和Grasshopper软件插件。得到以下结果： 1) 其设计者在立面的整体尺寸上采用水平和垂直方向的三段式分区和等分分层；2）其设计者在门口的柱子和细节处也采用了模块化（modular）设计和组合；3）本研究发现，立面的（连续）分区比“根矩形分区”更接近“黄金分割”；进一步的分析发现了立面的黄金矩形和黄金螺旋（连续划分）。“数字衍生几何设计”背后的美学-数学模式具有重要的历史价值。