Modulor
The Modulor is an architectural concept invented by Le Corbusier in 1943. Standardized human silhouette being used to conceive the structure and the size of the housing units, like the radiant Quoted of Marseilles or the Housing unit of Firminy-Green, it was to allow, according to him, a maximum comfort in the relations between the man and his vital space. Thus, Le Corbusier thinks of creating a system more adapted than the current metric system, because directly related to human morphology, and hopes to see one day the replacement of this last.
It is about a Mot-valise composed on “module” and “Golden section”. Indeed, the proportions fixed by the modulor are directly related to the Golden section. For example, the relationship between the size (1m83) and the height of the navel (1m13) average are equal to 1,619, that is to say the Golden section with a margin of thousandths.
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