BODY & BUILDING
There is a close relationship between human body and
buildings, be it a metaphor or some abstractions, like in the text De
Architectura by Marcus Vitruvius said that, Buildings should be proportioned symmetrically
as per human body. However, it would be make sense of the building to be a
direct response to the body. This means that the sizing of it should be based
on the anthropometric and ergonomics of human activities. In response, this
would turn those studies of data to be translates into height, area, width,
area and etc. to plan a space.
“PROPORTION
IS A CORRESPONDENCE AMONG THE MEASURES OF MEMBERS OF AN ENTIRE WORK”, Marcus Vitruvius
Marcus Vitruvius stated that human body is designed
by nature and that every part of it should has its own meaning. In architecture,
such as 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.
“ARCHITECTURE
MUST BE A THING TO THE BODY, A THING OF SUBSTANCE AS WELL AS OF THE SPIRIT
AND
OF THE BRAIN”, Le
Corbusier
I’ve concluded that mostly building are metaphor of
human body in architecture nowadays in Malaysia or any other country in the
world. Structure of the human body, human body parts even small cell in human
body were taking in as design intention or inspiration to apply and put in
their design. As the main purpose of building is created to gives human
shelter. Architecture must not be separated from human bodies. Human bodies are
a great thing to be explored and studied by architect as it changes how a
building should be interact. Human anthropometric studies are an endless
studies as human behaviour changes physically and mentally, beside different
gender, age, races and religion does matter the whole things.
CASE STUDY
FINAL WOODEN HOUSE by Sou Fujimoto
In Japan, a house is made up of timber wood, which
is called final wooden house. It is an experimentation to human size
comfortable space in it. The architect also need to study human scale to move
around stair steps, floor, with a comfortable height of 150mm, when double it
will become a bench and triple become tables, and so on. The ideas of this
materials to arrange of timbers logs creates space that not define by the
function or rooms to maximize the use of every corner of the house, and the all
measurement are considered per human scale and sizes brings comfortless to the
people inside.
As a conclusion, what I’ve learnt base on the
information above, I understand that the building be direct response to human
body. With the right size, height, width, and length, then only bring out the
good quality in it, can be achieved and brings good architecture. In my
opinion, it is very important before start up the design building, need to
consider the human sizes to come out the space.