The quad can also be considered on smaller scales. If you look at the quad from the inner grassy area, it looks more like a dorm and less like an enormous structure. Looking at any of the inner walls, it is obvious that the quad has many floors with rooms, hallways, bathrooms, stairwells, etc. The signs above each door indicate that the quad is split into smaller college houses (Ware, Riepe, and Fisher) and each of these smaller college houses is further divided into small subsections, each roughly a hallway long and about four or five stories tall. Looking at the quad with a smaller scale makes it seem less massive and more welcoming, more like home. Finally, you can observe the quad through its smallest scale, the fundamental building block of the "38 interlocking buildings surrounding [the] five interior courtyards"that is the freshman quad: each individual room. (http://www.upenn.edu/admissions/tour/tourstop.php?stop=20) Each room is anywhere from about 80 to 200 square feet, depending on the room type (single, double, triple). While viewing the quad from this particular scale, freshman think not of a colossal structure but instead think of their home, or their first home away from home.