My New Modulor

This sequence, done in quite a serenpedity location, although a very known one in my town due the celebrity of the architect, and its other attempts to discover mathematical proportions in the human body and then to use that knowledge to improve both the appearance and function of architecture, a system is based on human measurements, the double unit, the Fibonacci numbers, and the golden ratio; has inspired me a lot.

At first the female body, "a contrario" than the male one use for the original concept, placed here in the stairs reminds well the graphic sketch of the stylized figure used for the sinuous shaded curves of  the Modulor, in the same way the red bannister, the natural blue light coming from a little window and the artificial yellow one graphically add a retinal wink to the original studies.

This Brooklyn pin-up model tall size is about 6'3" (1m92) and the Modulor one 6'0" (1m83), in parallel, critics of the Modulor have pointed out a number of concerns with the system. The height of the figure appears to be arbitrary and was perhaps chosen for mathematical convenience. The female body, in the words of Robin Evans, "was only belatedly considered and rejected as a source of proportional harmony" (Evans 1995, quoted in Ostwald 2001, 146).

So, as Le Corbusier described it "range of harmonious measurements to suit the human scale, universally applicable to architecture and to mechanical things", i am happy to have used here a female model or,  i could say a "Vitruvian Woman", the world-renowned drawing created by Leonardo da Vinci around the year 1487 which is sometimes called the Canon of Proportions or, less often, Proportions of Man...

The correlations of ideal human proportions with geometry may be lacking here of a drawn circle and square, but not at all for me. This sequence, as the two different stockings used, shows two distinct sessions, the first appears roughness, the second smoothness. Both had been done very quickly without any additional lightning or people assisting me, the immediate results on the screen of the camera were already inviting me to return in that place as many times it could been possible, but not with another model, Or Modul i can say...

AG

Quelques mots de nôtre FADA international :

"La polychromie ne nécessite pas de mise en scène si pédante et si professorale. On invente la polychromie d'un bâtiment lorsque celui-ci est construit, que les plâtres sont terminés, que les échafaudages sont loin, que la lumière vraie entre par les fenêtres. A ce moment-là on se rend compte de la valeur réciproque des différents murs et on vivifie par la couleur en tirant part des lois spécifiques de la couleur: le rouge tonique, le bleu pour enfoncer un mur, le jaune extrêmement dangereux et tout à fait localisé ou en simple complémentaire des deux précédents. On joue avec les valeurs fortes ou avec des valeurs très légères: en un mot, on exprime un bâtiment par la polychromie, on ne doit pas le détruire."

Le Corbusier