HUMAN & BODY
Since Greek antiquity, the human body has been regarded as a microcosm of universal harmony. In this century, with the advance technology and resource is easy to get, we should remember that the building is design for human. It's not just about the fancy design foam and function. It's all goes back to human body proportion and building . The relationship between human body and architecture should be more concern whether that be physically, emotionally or spiritually. Architects is “figural artists” because of the way that the symmetry and apertures of buildings imitate the form and orifices of the human body.
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About the proportion of a building , human body is the perfect golden ratio to design building . During the Renaissance was the connection between architecture and the body, the idea that architecture is mediated by the body and vice versa, the primary source of architectural proportions was the body. Used man’s features for not only the orders, but the elevations and plans of buildings. This concept of mediation was emphasized by Leonardo da Vinci’s drawing of a man’s body creating a square and a circle in the Vitruvius passage.
Architecture relationship between human body are to find the perfect dimension within the space . its can develop in to the race, sex, body type etc. The space create to make us feel comfortable inside the space which the height of the room ,the height of the door , the space is enough for the people to live and feel comfortable. Its about how we act and how we feel in the space.
The le modular will be guide as a guide line while we design , le corbusier want us to use the ratio to design and mass production it . But it's also having argue after that said that it's not concern about the race and sex such as female which it's not so applicable. So to design should always refer to human body need to create the perfect space for the human body .
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“ best modern design rejects extreme functionalism in favour of aesthetic harmony, stating that “a scheme of proportions integrates and informs a thoroughly designed modern building, [which] composes the diverse parts and harmonizes the various elements in to a single whole...” quoted from “Hidden Lines: Gender, Race and the Body” by Lance Hosey.
 House NA |  Turning Torso |  buxom towers |
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 Dancing Tower |
Sweden's tallest residential building is the HSB Turning Torso, a sculptural sustainable skyscraper that gently spirals as it ascends above the skyline of Malmo. Designed by renowned architect, sculptor and structural engineer Santiago Calatrava, , which resembles a twisting human spine which was inspired by a human body in movement, the glass façade features a complex double-curved shape.
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A pair of buxom towers on the outskirts of Toronto, designed by Chinese practice MAD, were nicknamed after Marilyn Monroe because they apparently “resemble her iconic hourglass figure”. The analogy is enough to make the blonde bombshell spin in her grave. The lumpen shafts look more like a couple of crumpled Pringles tubes that someone has tried to stamp on.
Frank Gehry’s Dancing Tower in Prague, twisting glass facades into unusual forms was still a miraculous structural achievement – he came up with the Fred and Ginger building, modelled on a wasp-waisted Ginger Rogers frozen mid-twirl with Fred Astaire. The building’s glass facade billows out into a skirt, while a little projecting balcony protrudes to clutch at Fred’s waist.
Sou Fujimoto Architects radical House NA,Described as “a unity of separation and coherence”, the house acts as both a single room and a collection of rooms. The loosely defined program and the individual floor plates create a setting for a range of activities that can take place at different scales. Each floor plate is linked by a variety of stairs and ladders, including short runs of fixed and movable steps. Stratifying floor plates in a furniture-like scale allows the structure to serve many types of functions, such as providing for circulation, seating and workings spaces. This house perfectly using the porportion of human body scale to design the house ,as by the human body as its design form .
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Bring to the conclusion, human body and architecture is always between each others , which can be seen on the design of a building .