HUMAN SCALESUBMITTED BY:

SAKSHI AGGARWAL

PRASHANT SHISHODIA

VAIBHAV MUDGAL

B.ARCH II YEAR (IDEAL SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, GHAZIABAD)

INTRODUCTION

THE HUMAN BODY & THE MODULOR

The Modulor is an anthropometric scale of

proportions devise by the Swiss-born French

architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965).

It was initially based on a French man’s height

of 1.75m but later it was changed to 1.83m in

1946.

The dimensions were refined to give round numbers and the overall height of the raised arm was set at 2.26m.

Le Corbusier explicitly used the golden ratio in his

Modulor system for the scale of architectural

proportion.

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LE CORBUSIER

GRAPHIC REPRESENTATION

The graphic representation of the Modulor: a stylized human figure with one arm raised, stands next to two vertical measurements, a red series & a blue series.

Red series: based on the figure's navel height (1.08 m in the original version, 1.13 m in the revised version) then segmented according to Phi

Blue series: based on the figure's entire height, double the navel height (2.16 m in the original version, 2.26 m in the revised), segmented similarly.

A spiral, graphically developed between the red and blue segments, seems to mimic the volume of the human figure.

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He saw this system as a continuation of the long tradition of Vitruvius, Leonardo daVinci’s and the work of Leon Battista Alberti.

They used the proportions of the human body to improve the appearance & function of architecture.

LE CORBUSIER WITH THE

MODULOR

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LE CORBUSIER; DIMENSIONAL

REQUIREMENTS IN TRAIN CARRIAGE

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MODULOR

This concept emerged between 1925-33, when his interest

in measurements and requirements for the human body

(“resting, sitting, walking”) began.

HUMAN SCALE REPRESENTATION

IN CHANDIGARH

The city of Chandigarh is planned to human scale. It puts us in touch

with the infinite cosmos and nature.

It provides us with places and buildings for all human

activities by which the citizens can live a full and

harmonious life.

SECRETARIAT

ASSEMBLY HALL

HIGH COURT

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LE CORBUSIER’S STRUCTURES

WITH

MODULOR SYSTEM

PALACE OF MINISTRIES IN CHANDIGARH, ALSO KNOWN AS THE SECRETARIAT

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PLANNING OF CHANDIGARH

Le Corbusier conceived the

master plan of Chandigarh as

analogous to human body,

with a clearly defined head

(the Capitol Complex, Sector

1), heart (the City Centre

Sector-17), lungs (the leisure

valley, innumerable open spaces and sector greens), the

intellect (the cultural and

educational institutions), the

circulatory system (the network

of roads, the 7Vs) and the viscera (the Industrial Area). LE CORBUSIER’S BELIEF IN THE ANTHROPOMETRIC

PROPORTIONAL CONNECTIONS & LINKS

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1. PARLIAMENT

2. SECRETARIAT

3. GOVERNOR’S

PALACE

4. HIGH COURT

5. TRUNCATED

PYRAMID

6. MONUMENT FOR

THE VICTIMS

7. OPEN HAND

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DRAWING OF LUNGS IN MY WORK

BY LE CORBUSIERRADIANT CITY DIAGRAM BY LE CORBUSIER AND THE CITY

PLAN SHOWING ANTHROPOMORPHIC INSPIRATION

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V1- CONNECTS CHANDIGARH

TO OTHER CITIES

V2 - ARE THE MAJOR AVENUES

OF THE CITY

V3 - ARE THE CORRIDORS

STREETS FOR VEHICULAR TRAFFIC

ONLY

V4…..V7 - ARE THE ROADS

WITHIN THE SECTORS

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LE CORBUSIER’S CONCEPTUAL SKETCH SHOWING THE V-

ROAD SYSTEM

LE CORBUSIER’S

ANALYSIS OF VISUAL

PERCEPTION

PLAN OF GREEN

SPACES

(HATCHED) IN

SECTOR 22,

CHANDIGARH

CHANDIGARH

CITY PLAN SHOWING

THE SEPARATION OF

VEHICULAR AND

PEDESTRIAN

NETWORKS

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