#human scale

[vanpeltfoto]

Two walls pause the sky and call it architecture.

Here, space is not empty. It is calibrated. Measured in shadows, footsteps, the careful distance between strangers sharing the same rectangle of light.

And still I scan the geometry for a familiar absence, as if you might be hidden between planes of concrete and sky, as if every open surface were another place to look for you.

(Photo: d.)

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[kgolyz]

Human scale (look closely).

[stimpunks]

No one is coming to save us. Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.

No one is coming to save us. We have to save ourselves. Rebuilding The Village – Google Docs What should we do to survive the current state of the world? “Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.” The human capacity for language would not have given us any adaptive ecological advantage if it did not primarily serve the purpose of improving our ability to understand, trust,…

No one is coming to save us. Engage in collaborative niche construction at human scale.

[schittz-n-giggles-garage]

[noosphe-re]

Cover of "Der Modulor" by Le Corbusier (Ed.5, 1985)

Between 1942 and 1955 the architect Le Corbusier (1887–1965) developed a universal measuring system known as the "Modulor".

The Modulor represented an attempt to give architecture a mathematical order oriented to a human scale. Starting from the golden ratio and the proportions of the human body, Le Corbusier developed his doctrine for the proportions of construction. He started from an assumed standard size of the human body and marked three intervals related to each other in the proportion of the golden ratio.

Le Corbusier managed to combine the imperial measuring system based on the foot with the metric decimal system and at the same time to relate to human body measurements. As a result, he obtained a systematic planning basis for architecture and industrial products that gained worldwide currency and was applied by countless practitioners. —ETH Library, ETH Zurich

[wisdoms-of-a-pothead]

1607 Lausitz

[desimonewayland]

The Modulor

Le Corbusier’s approach to the investigation that both Vitruvius and Da Vinci had embarked on before him – was the effort to find a mathematical relationship between man's measurements and nature. In his calculations, this relationship, which itself was called the Modulor, was a system of measurements on the human scale based on the golden ratio. His finalized Modulor was composed of three main measures: the height of the standardized man, which was 1.83 m or 6 feet (previously, the modulor was 1.75 m tall, which was equivalent to the average Frenchman); the height of the standard man with an arm raised, which was 2.26 m; and the height of the navel, considered the halfway mark to the tip of raised arm, which was 1.13 m. These are also the three intervals that constitute Fibonacci's golden ratio.

[escalamx]

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