- Proportion
- Scale
- Size
The Vitruvian ManThe perfect human figure has the perfect proportion between limbs and body. When stretched out straight, it will form a perfect circle. When arched out, as if making a snow angel, it forms a perfect circle. That is the Virtruvian Man.
Le Modulor
Le ModulorLe Modulor can be thought of as a universal ruler. Anything and everything made and used by humans will be correctly made in size and proportion when based on Le Modulor. Like how the Vitruvian Man is the perfect human form, Le Modulor is the perfect human measurement.
Another influence to Le Modulor is the Golden Ratio (1.61803399). It is the happy go-lucky Grandfather of mathematics that was loved by all from painters to architects as the go-to ratio for harmonious proportion and aesthetically pleasing creations. In respect, the scale of Le Modulor is heavily influenced by the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio was defined by the Fibonacci series (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5...). Each new number is the sum of the previous two numbers. All that mass of numbers that determines the scale on the picture of Le Modulor is the complex combination of the Golden Ratio, Fibonacci series, Metric system or measurement (centimeter, meter, kilometer) and Imperial system of measurement (feet, inches).
To my understanding, let's say we are building a round table. To correctly determine it's diameter, I guess we use the top section of Le Modulor as it is a stretched out arm so a person can reach all sides of the table, or rather the radius instead of it was meant to be shared by many people.
Still there must be a reason why Le Modulor has been lost in time as expressed by an architect by the name of Joe. The height of Le Modulor is 6 feet, but in most parts of the world the average human height is below 6 feet, going as low as 4'8" in Bolivia if Wikipedia is to be believed. Beyond this time, given environmental changes and evolution the numbers will change. Maybe one day the average human height of the world will be around 6 feet, but until then Le Modulor is not that perfect.
The ultimate tribute to Le Modulor, built entirely based on it:
Unite d' Habitation
Reference:
- Class
- Le Corbusier's Modulor Man
http://wharferj.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/le-corbusiers-modulor-man/
- Golden Ratio in Art and Architecture
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/gr_in_art.htm
- Human height
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
Another influence to Le Modulor is the Golden Ratio (1.61803399). It is the happy go-lucky Grandfather of mathematics that was loved by all from painters to architects as the go-to ratio for harmonious proportion and aesthetically pleasing creations. In respect, the scale of Le Modulor is heavily influenced by the Golden Ratio.
The Golden Ratio was defined by the Fibonacci series (0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5...). Each new number is the sum of the previous two numbers. All that mass of numbers that determines the scale on the picture of Le Modulor is the complex combination of the Golden Ratio, Fibonacci series, Metric system or measurement (centimeter, meter, kilometer) and Imperial system of measurement (feet, inches).
To my understanding, let's say we are building a round table. To correctly determine it's diameter, I guess we use the top section of Le Modulor as it is a stretched out arm so a person can reach all sides of the table, or rather the radius instead of it was meant to be shared by many people.
Still there must be a reason why Le Modulor has been lost in time as expressed by an architect by the name of Joe. The height of Le Modulor is 6 feet, but in most parts of the world the average human height is below 6 feet, going as low as 4'8" in Bolivia if Wikipedia is to be believed. Beyond this time, given environmental changes and evolution the numbers will change. Maybe one day the average human height of the world will be around 6 feet, but until then Le Modulor is not that perfect.
The ultimate tribute to Le Modulor, built entirely based on it:
Unite d' Habitation Reference:
- Class
- Le Corbusier's Modulor Man
http://wharferj.wordpress.com/2010/12/12/le-corbusiers-modulor-man/
- Golden Ratio in Art and Architecture
http://jwilson.coe.uga.edu/emat6680/parveen/gr_in_art.htm
- Human height
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_height
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