The inevitable order: Revisiting the Calibrated Biomimetics of Le Corbusier’s Modulor
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[1] VBT Consortium, Bengaluru, India
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- Localización: Le Corbusier: 50 años después / Jorge Torres Cueco (aut.), 2016, ISBN 978-84-9048-373-2, págs. 1029-1042
- Idioma: español
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Resumen
Biomimetics is a philosophy in Architecture that addresses issues not through mimicry but by understanding therules governing natural forms. Biomimetics has gained popularity in the past few decades but it would be more apposite tostate that this philosophy may have had its origins many years previously in the conceptualization of the Modulor, as LeCorbusier strived to unite Mathematics, Physiology & Design. Common knowledge shows that disturbed by application ofgeneric Imperial and Standard systems of measurements, the Modulor was ideated to help perceive the built environment as aphysical extension of the human body. Le Corbusier’s attempt to develop a harmonious scale towards the measurement of theabsolute has been criticized for adopting industrial efficiency; though alienating human emotion was farthest fromCorbusier’s thought. What then is the architectural paradox in comprehending The Modulor as the universal proportioningsystem- racial differences in anthropometry, mechanizing architectural built forms within and without or simply anapprehension of losing mannerisms in architecture? Trying to unravel the mysteries of nature through analytics of thenumbering system, Corbusier was consumed by the all-pervasive need to find answers to eternal questions in scientificspirituality. This paper explores the inevitable order of Le Corbusier’s universe, revisiting the conceptualization of theModulor, its relevance to architectural philosophies in general and Biomimetics in particular and the universal application ofthe same as a governing factor in Design methodologies.
