BODY & BUILDING
In our lecture today was about the Body & Building which body proportion or body ratio is use in building design and take this as an important consideration while designing a building.
I think that the connection among architecture and human body these days glaringly is bonded strongly with each different. Our body is the ultimate tool for discovering the environment. Human anatomy is considered to be nature’s peak of perfection and certain features serve as inspiration for many architects. Architecture and the human body also come into contact a more concrete way at en ergonomic level. The relationship between size, form and movement are what essentially characterize the human scale. Architecture lets in diffused functions of human body to be impressed, received and transmitted into the built environment. Buildings borrow capabilities such as their structural flexibility from the human frame using it as a manner to withstand unpredictable geological instabilities.
Furthermore, the human body is measured as a FORM. In architecture, as such, to design is to establish the anthropometric distance between the human body and tactile objects, to orientate the proxemics interactions between one body and another, and to articulate something of the Divine Proportion of the human body. As a MATTER, the human body is subjectified in which the aesthetic experience of architecture is articulated in accordance with the phenomenological bodily contact with the ‘gesture’ of everyday buildings. The body, for instance, moves freely in the recreation park, becomes more cautious in the library, and merges with noise while waiting in the subway station. Through this holomorphic exposition, the human body and architecture encode a very particular dispositive.
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The Human Body Museum in Montpellier, France seems to be the metaphor of the body. It explore the human body from an artistic, scientific and societal approach. A series of seemingly singular pavilions that weave together to form a unified institution – like individual fingers united together in a mutual grip and the building even seems like a body cells.
The façades of the Museum of the Human Body are transparent, maximizing the visual and physical connection to the surroundings. On the sinuous façade that oscillates between facing North and South, East and West, the optimum louver orientation varies constantly, protecting sunlight, while also resembling the patterns of a human fingerprint – both unique and universal in nature.
Back to the question, I think that body and building is still strongly attached to each other as what Le Corbusier said “Architecture must be a thing of the body, a thing of substance as well as of the spirit and of the brain.'' Architecture and body of human being must be consider as a whole. It is important for an architect to capture that the building not only reacting to occupants but communicates in both dialogues.