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“Proportion is a correspondence among the measures of members of an entire work.” In an age dominated by computers and technology, it is necessary to consider its implications on the human body and mind. This is especially relevant to architecture since it is one of the professions that have been radically affected by this phenomenon.

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               In today architecture, actually we are toward an era of the materials are conformation to more passing, and more toughness to produce more functionality within very limited space. So that, the architect need to always remember that architecture cannot just only functionalism itself, human exemplification also must include it. So what the main issue that nowadays architect face? It is to seeking the balance between the architecture and human body. “To invoke one is to invoke the other, as well as the underlying conceptual principles and implications.” Quoted by Lance Hosey.

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               The relationship between architecture and the body can be linked to the relationship between medicine and architecture. Why do I say so? Sections and interior drawings emerged at about the same time that medicine started to study the interior of the human body by cutting through it and drawing its anatomy. This gave rise to the idea of architecture not as a whole body but as a dissected fragmented body. Many of the causes and cures of illnesses were explained in relation to architecture. An example of that is how the causes of TB in the late nineteenth century were listed as “unfavourable climate, sedentary indoor life, defective ventilation and deficiency of light.” And modern architecture responded to that by setting new standards for buildings to provide more healthy environments, such as Le Corbusier’s work where he used medical pictures of lungs and their inner workings as architectural illustrations to develop a ventilation system for “clean, dust-free air” (Colomina, 2003).

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               From my point of view, the building metaphors of the body is actually based on the physically of the human body. In design, architect need to make sure the human proportion is balance with the building, it will definitely make the building more visualize and nicer. It also took a part of human body as a reference and apply it to as one of a part of the building. We should always remember how physically making better mentally in relationship of proportion of human body. Physically make better mentally in relationship of proportion of human body. “Architecture must be a thing of the body, a thing of substance as well as of the spirit and of the brain.” ------ Le Corbusier.

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               Besides that, the case study of a contemporary building that I use to support my point is Final Wooden House which design by Sou Fujimoto. It located in Kumamoto, Kumamoto Prefecture, Japan. It is a project which direct response to human body. This building design different layer of wooden to form three-dimensionality space.

The floor levels are relative and spatiality is perceived differently according to one's position.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Here, people are distributed three-dimensionally in the space. This is a place like an amorphous landscape with a new experience of various senses of distances. Inhabitants discover, rather than being prescribed, various functionalities in these convolutions. Each of the spaces were planned very well, in order for human activities to take place.

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                Moreover, the NA house which also design by the same architect Sou Fujimoto. The intention of NA house is “a unity of separation and coherence”. Every single square of the house is being designed to suit the user based on the human proportional. Sou Fujimoto states, “The white steel-frame structure itself shares no resemblance to a tree. Yet the life lived and the moments experienced in this space is a contemporary adaptation of the richness once experienced by the ancient predecessors from the time when they inhabited trees. Such is an existence between city, architecture, furniture and the body, and is equally between nature and artificiality.”

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              In a nutshell, based on my personal point of view, I realize that the space of many buildings nowadays are getting very limited, so that there are existing a lot of small scale building, in a the same time, the architecture should figure out more about the human anthropometry and also the “human needs” of the building.