The Brew Cabin

Posted: **Mon May 16, 2005 9:54 am**

While trawling the internet and local suppliers in search of options, I've started wondering whether there is any paving out there with a range of sizes related by the Golden Mean, or Fibonnaci series, e.g. 1300 x 800, 800 x 500, etc ? Might random paving areas look even better with such sizes?

Here's a link for members interested in seeing a [rare] project which does use this approach to its paving as well as everything else, though NB the paving is not emphasized in the illustrations:

http://www.ceng-web.calpoly.edu/images/Spring2004Newsletter.pdf

Posted: **Sat May 28, 2005 5:48 pm**

I'm not aware of any paving units that follow a Fibonacci series - this may be because paving units have to be of manageable dimensions, so you have upper and lower limits on sizes. As for Golden Rectangles, I'm not sure that anyone manufactures such a seemingly unnatural ratio, because it would not be modular. It would be fine for coursed or herringbone work, but it becomes very limited in terms of other patterns and it can't produce a truly random layout because it isn't (random, that is) - it's very specifically sized.

I've seen a number of designs based on Golden Rectangles/Fibonacci series, but they all begin to look the same, and, to be brutally frank, they don't look all that impressive at eye level. The Golden Rule of designing paving layouts might be that, just because summat looks impressive to the birds and airplane passengers, doesn't mean it's bound to be a wow with the peds using it every day! :p

The Brew Cabin

Golden ratio - Slab sizes