architecture assignment?

Question

I'm an architecture student and we have an assignmet.we are given some words and we have to show this word with some kinds of diagram or other means and relate this word with some texts that also we are given form le cobusier and louis kahn and also we have to find some photos that is related to the word.my word is SCALE.could someone help to get to an idea about the assignment and specificaly the photo?

Answer 1

Have you referred Le Corbusier's Modulor and Modular 2? These are mathematical proportions of the human body and used to improve both the appearance and function of architecture. The graphic representation of the Modulor is a stylized human figure with one arm upraised next to two vertical measurements, the red series based on the figure's navel height (108cm in the original version, 1.13m in the revised version) then segmented according to Phi, and the blue series based on the figure's entire height, double the navel height (216cm in the original version, 2.26m in the revised), and likewise segmented. A spiral, graphically developed between the red and blue segments, seems to mimic the volume of the human figure. Corbusier used this scale for many of his buildings notably the Unite d Habitation, Marseilles, Notre Dame du Haute and the Secretariat and High Court at Chandigarh, India.