TheModulorleCorbusier

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leCorbusierBackground

• BornCharlesEdouardJeannereton06October1887,inLaChaux‐de‐Fonds,Switzerland• AHendedtheÉcoledesArtsatLaChaux‐de‐Fonds.Whichhelatertaughtat.• HetraveledextensivelythroughEurope• In1917,heseHledinParisandwroteVersuneArchitecture(TowardsaNewArchitecture)• In1947,hebuiltUnited’habita/on• In1948,hepublishedTheModulor• In1955,hepublishedTheModulor2• Died27August1965,CapMar/n,France

Influences

• Vitruvius’VitruvianMan:showshowthebodyispropor/onalusingthegeometryofacircleandsquare.• FibonacciSeries:1,1,2,3,5,8,13,21,34…thera/obetweenthenumbersastheseriescon/nuetheyapproachalimi/ngvalueof1.618orφ• GoldenSec/on:sidelengthsarethegoldenra/o:1:φ,or1:1.618.

Ini/alInspira/on

Camefromthechallengeofposi/oningthehumanformwithinthreeinterconnectedsquares,Thechallengecameintheplacementofthethirdsquare.LeCorbusiersolvedtheproblembyusingtherela/onshipofφandtheintroduc/onofarightangle

TheModulor

• The Modulor is a geometrical proportioning grid based on the human form  • “Le Corbusier called the Fibonacci series arising from the relationship φ based on the unit 108 the red series, and that series based on the double unit 216 the blue series. I drew a man of a height of 1.75 m engaged at four points: zero, 108, 175, 216. Then the red strip on the left, the blue on the right, the series of φ going towards zero below, and that progressing towards infinity above” The Modulor, page 52. 

TheModulorTools

TheModulorAppliedtotheHumanForm

TheModulorAppliedtoBuildingUnited’Habita/on:PlansandSec/ons

Key(meters)A=.065B=.165C=.20D=.33E=.43F=.53G=.70H=.86I=1.13J=2.26K=2.98L=3.36M=4.19=L+F

TheModulorAppliedtoBuildingUnited’Habita/on:Facade

Key(meters)A=.065B=.165C=.20D=.33E=.43F=.53G=.70H=.86I=1.13J=2.26K=2.98L=3.36M=4.19=L+F

TheModulorAppliedtoBuildingUnited’Habita/on:Interiors

Key(meters)A=.065B=.165C=.20D=.33E=.43F=.53G=.70H=.86I=1.13J=2.26K=2.98L=3.36M=4.19=L+F

TriadAppliedDELIGHT

FIRMNESS COMMODITY

WorkCited

Le Corbusier. The Modulor: A Harmonious Measure to the Human Scale   Universally Applicable to Architecture and Mechanics. Cambridge:   Harvard University Press, 1954 

Ostwald, Michael J. “ Le Corbusier (Charles Edouard Jeanneret) the Modulor   and Modulor 2.”Nexus Network Journal. Volume 3, Number 1. 2001.   145‐148. SpringerLink. 28 October 2009.  < http://www.springerlink.com/content/1qr207l820065874/>. 

Weston. Plans, Sections and Elevations: Key Buildings of the Twentieth   Century. London: Laurence King Publishing, 2004.