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Upon initial examination of Le Corbusier Modulor the concept of generating a sole colonial man of six foot with his own set of universal anthropometric dimensions is quite crude and dangerous across all societies.18 There is a clear disregard to different human dimensions, but also gender and the disabled with Le Corbusier being naive assuming everyone will enjoy a space which follows the Modulor man proportions. This raises the question to how do users which are not at the ‘correct’ size feel within a Le Corbusier building but also can space be interpreted for the individual?

 

Yet when you analysis architecture design in general there many concepts which do not follow strict bodily sizes having quadruple height ceilings or tight corridors in which people struggle to move through. This can be argued where the ideas of atmospheric effect meets standardisation to produce thought, in relation to the concepts of silence and stillness in architecture expression discussed in previous lectures. We see in the digital age we reposition to position ourselves in the correct fashion as a room with a uniform desk layout states we must sit in a particular way to do the appropriate work. Although we are all human individuals which experience and feel space in distinctive forms we cannot design for the individual user on a mass scale as there boundaries through regulations, which can be viewed as reduction of bodily freedom. However within design there will always boundaries otherwise we would be stuck in a hermeneutic circle never designing anything, thus functionalism is required to take control. Le Corbusier may have appeared crude in methodology nevertheless design and space will always be build upon anthropometric percentiles as these are seen as practical bodies.