BUILDING AND BODY
Since ancient time, people always consider the human body during designing in architecture. Many principle started to be created to assist with it, such as "Le Modular" system . Previous research suggests that bodies are uniquely dissimilar and that architectural space is primarily perceived in relation to the body. However, architects often consider either a standardized body that disregards differences (e.g., sex, race, physical attributes) or disregard the body entirely.
Design Criteria with the relationship between human body and building.
Design with an understanding of "human beings" diverse physical qualities (e.g., sex, size, impairments, race) and psychological traits (e.g., culture, emotion).
Design with open-mindedness toward the irregularities of the human body.
Include human figures in drawings to convey and understand the interactions between space and the human body.
Key Concepts
Architectural curriculum rarely incorporated material about the interrelationships between design and the human body. When it was considered, a simplified body image or the students’ own body was used as a reference. Architects in practice seldom considered the human body as an expressed or implied reference for design. Practicing architects consistently used the size of their own bodies as a reference for understanding the human body and frequently overlooked body differences (e.g., sex, ethnicity/culture, physical stature). Architectural drawings and photographs often did not include a human body; however, when a figure was included, it frequently symbolized an abstracted form serving to denote scale or measurement.
HUMAN PROPORTION
CASE STUDY
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Underneath the roofscape, the program is distributed in a logical and rational manner,
according to the desired views towards the park, the daylight requirements, the connections to the surroundings and the internal desired connection In my opinion, the distribution part resemble the red blood cell in human body, i think this beyond the concept of metaphor of human body, it is more abstaction
from the human body. It maybe said is metaphor of human body inside.
A fluid space, an unifying matrix creates links between all of the program.
This may be the strangest museum I’ve ever seen. Looks more like something you would find in Las Vegas or Disney World rather than on the side of a highway 35km from Amsterdam. The Corpus Museum offers its guests an excursion through the human body during which they can see, feel, and hear how the body works. The building, designed by architect Wolbrand van der Vis of PBV Architecten, even has a 5D-heart theater where you, the audience, are a red blood cell. The journey begins at the knee and continues through the uterus (I guess it’s a woman then), the stomach, intestines, the mouth, and finally ending in the brain.
Discuss about the topic of human and body, i think this example should be the type of direct response from human body to building. The accurancy of the proportion of body should not be suspect.
Since this a museum that explore human sense, so this building could be categorized in function follow form.
After study these two case studies, i found out human body proportion is important during design.
Anthropometric is necessary to study because in the end , the building will be used by your client. Everything
back to human activities. As people said, "Design without consider human proportion , is nothing."