Glossary entry

Deutsch term or phrase:

raumhaltig

Englisch translation:

voluminous

Added to glossary by monbuckland
Jan 27, 2008 13:21
16 yrs ago
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Deutsch term

raumhaltig

Deutsch > Englisch Technik Architektur
This is somehow more than just "three-dimensional", with its implication of taking up space. Can anyone think of a succinct but fitting way of putting it in English?

The specific sentence it comes from is:
"Ihre Strukturen reichen von geometrischen Formverläufen über raumhaltige Ornamente bis zu scheinbar organisch gewachsenen Gebilden."
Change log

Jan 27, 2008 17:45: Steffen Walter changed "Field" from "Kunst/Literatur" to "Technik"

Proposed translations

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voluminous

sounds somewhat more poetic to me than volumetric and seems to capture the idea of the original, namely that the ornaments take up a lot of space
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4 KudoZ points awarded for this answer. Comment: "Decided to go with this one. As I said, the word means *more than* just three-dimensional."
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room-filling

an idea
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disagree Kim Metzger : That would be raumausfüllend, wouldn't it?
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space enclosing

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organized around space-enclosing figures (squares; circles, poly-. gons etc. ...... Religion, and Burial; andBody Ornament and Clothing. Contact: ...
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three dimensional

I think you're right - it's three dimensional.

... Unterschiedliche Abwicklungen würden «Poché-Räume» einschliessen und die mehrschalige Fassade plötzlich raumhaltig werden lassen.

A different course of action would include poché spaces, and would suddenly render a multilayered facade three dimensional.

http://www.deplazes.arch.ethz.ch/downloads/forschung/daemmbe...


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Note added at 3 hrs (2008-01-27 17:10:16 GMT)
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Or volumetric
Critic James Wines notes, The topic of this book, 'un-volumetric architecture' is the search for creative alternatives to the overly volumetric 'shape making' obsessions of international architecture today . . .
http://www.publishedart.com.au/bookshop.html?book_id=1838
Peer comment(s):

agree gangels (X) : like 'volumetric'
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agree Andrew D : not just 2 d ornaments but three dimensional ornaments
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agree mary austria
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expansive ornaments

in the sense of 'imposing', but the mentioned 'volumetric' may be most precise, if not terribly poetic
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