BUILDING AND BODY IN ARCHITECTURE
What is the relationship between building & body today? Are buildings metaphors of the body; abstractions of the body; direct responses to the body; some combination of these; or something else?
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. The human body provides us with amazing ratios of equivalent dimensions.
Architecture and the human body also come into contact a more concrete way at an ergonomic level. The relationship between size, form and movement are what essentially characterize the human scale, a rather vague term and no doubt charged with various ideological meanings.
Architecture allows wonderful features of human body to be impressed, received and transmitted into the built environment. Buildings borrow features such as their structural flexibility from the human body using it as a way to resist unpredictable geological instabilities.
To understanding of human body and architecture space, we should know how to become aware of it. Human body is directly related with architecture and those building forms, function, negative and non-negative space are all create to suit the human activities. Building can be design to fit the human anthropometry and some working space too.”since the nature have design the human body so that its member are duly proportioned to the frame as a whole” by Marcus Vitruvius.
As from time to time changes, the function of space have a more meaning to it, and therefore the human body today have a more complex relationship with architecture as, where human body is used as a basic nature of design or measurements.
Today architecture, human body plays a more important role than of a basic measurement unit and nature of design to follow, this relationship are more than simply about finding the proper dimensions and placements within architectural space to suit a person and their behaviour in it.
Sou Fujimoto’s wooden house is a contemporary case studies that I want to talk about which he also an architecture way to bring environment that made for human use. human will ultimately find their own comfortable place which suits their needs and can explain the relationship of human and architecture.
It is symmetrical square wooden box. In the space, humans are given three-dimensionally in the space which there have no boundaries like floor, walls and ceiling.
In this place, as can see floor can use as a chair and wall use as a table and others functional space.
This is how architecture in today are built with the considerations and adaption of the anthropometry and human body behavior to suit human beings now.
Architecture is more of a strategically designed which invites human to use their own creativity and see how does human really use the space in there which also like architecture suit itself in human behaviour.
Hong Kong cage house and the small unit of hong kong apartment unit :
As can see, with the limited spaces for today’s architecture, small scale buildings or so called as space are becoming much more common, but human anthropometry need to be take it carefully in order to make space that can fit the human into it and the functional purpose.
Human porpotion is very important in the limited space which also clearly see the anthropometry in this particular tide space.
