metrhispanic

As the last ten years have passed, a constant remains: people are often confused by what is behind the figures. What is the meaning of an acre, or an hectare, or an inch? a good friend recently sent me a video about the archeological remains of the port of Carthage, the ancient nemesis of the Roman Empire, amazed by “their ability to build such a large structure, with space for hundreds of warships!”. It surely is an interesting structure, but it contained hundred of warships whose size was closer to a small sailing yacht nowadays than to a destroyer, and the whole structure is smaller than a mid-sized suburbial supermarket.

So why Carthage and then the above image of a driver? because sometimes we are not aware of the fact that some elements remain despite the changes in context. You may spend hundreds of thousands in a car, or buy a third hand one with the most limited setup, but you would get about the same dimensional context for the driver space, as there is to be the chance to handle properly all instruments.

So this is the start of a new series about dimensions, scale and the constraints of what we phisically build.